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Jays & Crows

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A few of the words

CACHE
Crows and jays hide hundreds of food items and can remember the locations of individual caches for months, a feat of spatial memory that rivals many mammals.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
RAVEN
Ravens have been resident at the Tower of London since at least the 1600s, and legend holds that the kingdom will fall if they ever leave.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
MOBBING
When a hawk or owl strays too close, jays and crows band together in a loud, swooping mob to drive the predator off, a behavior called mobbing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GRACKLE
The common grackle's glossy plumage shifts from purple to green to bronze depending on the angle of the light, a trick called iridescence.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Jays & Crows: a free large-print word search

Free large-print word search: jays, crows, ravens, and grackles, the bold, brainy characters who own the yard.

About Jays & Crows

Blue jays arrive with a flash of cobalt and a shriek that puts the whole yard on alert. Crows and ravens are among the most intelligent birds on earth, they cache food, recognize faces, and have been known to hold what look remarkably like grudges. Grackles strut in glossy iridescence, jackdaws peer with silver eyes, and magpies chatter from the fence line; the noisy, clever corvid crew never lets a morning pass quietly.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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