widgeons
plural of widgeon

widowbirds
plural of widowbird

wigeon
Any of three freshwater dabbling ducks.
A fool.

wigeons
plural of wigeon

wild turkey
A large gamebird, Meleagris gallopavo, native to North America.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, turkey.

willet
Tringa semipalmata (or formerly Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

willets
plural of willet

willie wagtail
An Australian bird, Rhipidura leucophrys.

willow grouse
Lagopus lagopus, a medium-sized bird in the grouse family.

willow ptarmigan
A willow grouse, Lagopus lagopus.

willow tit
A passerine bird of the tit family (Poecile montanus).

willow warbler
Phylloscopus trochilus, common species of Eurasiafrican leaf warbler

willow warblers
plural of willow warbler

willywagtail
Alternative form of willie wagtail.

willywagtails
plural of willywagtail

wimbrel
Alternative form of whimbrel.

wimbrels
plural of wimbrel

winchat
Archaic form of whinchat.

winchats
plural of winchat

winnard
The redwing.

winter wren
A bird of the species Troglodytes hiemalis, of the coniferous forests of the cooler parts of North America, from British Columbia to the Atlantic coast.
Any of what are now consider separate species, the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) and the Pacific wren (Troglodytes pacificus)

wirebird
The St Helena plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae, endemic to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, and the national bird of the island.

wirebirds
plural of wirebird

wonga pigeon
A bird of species Leucosarcia melanoleuca, of eastern Australia.

wood duck
A colorful North American duck, Aix sponsa, that nests in hollow trees.

wood hoopoes
plural of wood hoopoe

wood nuthatch
A nuthatch of the species Sitta europaea.

wood owl
Synonym of barred owl.

wood pigeon
The common wood pigeon, an Old World species of pigeon, Columba palumbus.
Any of several related species of pigeon in the genus Columba.
A very large (up to 650 grams) species of pigeon native to New Zealand, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae.

wood sandpiper
A Eurasian species of small wader birds, Tringa glareola, that is the smallest of the shanks.

wood stork
A large American wading bird, Mycteria americana.

wood storks
plural of wood stork

wood thrush
A species of bird, Hylocichla mustelina.

wood thrushes
plural of wood thrush

wood warbler
Phylloscopus sibilatrix, a common and widespread leaf warbler which breeds throughout northern and temperate Europe, and just into the extreme west of Asia in the southern Ural Mountains.

wood warblers
plural of wood warbler

woodchat shrike
Lanius senator, a species in the shrike family (Laniidae).

woodcock
Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
A simpleton.

woodcocks
plural of woodcock

woodcreepers
plural of woodcreeper

woodhoopoe
Alternative form of wood hoopoe

woodhoopoes
plural of woodhoopoe

woodlark
A lark, Lullula arborea, the only member of the genus Lullula, found in western Eurasia and northern Africa.

woodlarks
plural of woodlark

woodpeck
Obsolete form of woodpecker.

woodpecker
Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.
A Type 92 heavy machine gun.

woodpeckers
plural of woodpecker

woodpecks
plural of woodpeck

woodpigeon
Alternative spelling of wood pigeon.

woodpigeons
plural of woodpigeon

woodstars
plural of woodstar

woodswallow
Any of the genus Artamus, soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds.

woodswallows
plural of woodswallow

worm-eating warbler
Helmitheros vermivorum, a small New World warbler that breeds in the Eastern United States and migrates to southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America for the winter.

worm-eating warblers
plural of worm-eating warbler

wran
Alternative form of wren.

wren
Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).
Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.

wrens
plural of wren

wrenthrush
A bird of the species Zeledonia coronata, native to certain montane forests of Costa Rica and Panama.

wrenthrushes
plural of wrenthrush

wrentit
A small passerine bird, Chamaea fasciata, found in scrub along the west coast of North America.

wrentits
plural of wrentit

wrinkled hornbill
Rhabdotorrinus corrugatus, a hornbill of Malaysia and Indonesia.

writheneck
wryneck

wrybill
Anarhynchus frontalis, a species of small bird in the plover family Charadriidae, unique in having a beak that is bent sideways, endemic to New Zealand.

wrybills
plural of wrybill

wryneck
Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles.

wrynecks
plural of wryneck

wydah
Alternative form of whydah.

wydahs
plural of wydah

xenops
Any of the tropical birds in the genera Xenops, Megaxenops and Microxenops, found in Central and South America.

xenopsaris
A South American bird of the species Xenopsaris albinucha of the genus Xenopsaris; the white-naped xenopsaris.

xenopses
plural of xenops

xerochilia
Dryness of the lips.

yaldrin
Alternative form of yeldrin

yangtao
Synonym of kiwi fruit.

yangtaos
plural of yangtao

yardfowls
plural of yardfowl

yeldrin
The yellowhammer.

yeldrins
plural of yeldrin

yelkouan shearwater
Puffinus yelkouan, a medium-sized shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae.

yellow bittern
Ixobrychus sinensis, a small bittern of Old World origin, breeding in the northern Indian Subcontinent, with a short neck and longish bill.

yellow bunting
A bird, the yellowhammer.

yellow flycatcher
Any bird of the genus Erythrocercus.

yellow flycatchers
plural of yellow flycatcher

yellow oriole
A yellow or green passerine songbird
A yellow or green passerine songbird

yellow tit
Machlolophus holsti, a small bird of the tit family Paridae

yellow warbler
Any of certain small, yellow-colored songbird, including:
Any of certain small, yellow-colored songbird, including:

yellow-bellied fairy-fantail
A small, fantail-like passerine, Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus, family Stenostiridae, ranging across the Himalayas east to Southeast Asia.

yellow-bellied fantail
The yellow-bellied fairy-fantail when formerly classified as a member of the family Rhipiduridae.

yellow-bellied sapsucker
A type of woodpecker: Sphyrapicus varius.

yellow-bellied tit
Pardaliparus venustulus, a small bird of the tit family Paridae

yellow-billed chough
Synonym of alpine chough.

yellow-billed cuckoo
A cuckoo of species Coccyzus americanus.

yellow-billed duck
A dabbling duck of species Anas undulata.

yellow-billed egret
Synonym of intermediate egret.

yellow-billed grosbeak
An Asian finch, Eophona migratoria

yellow-billed kite
A kite, closely related to the black kite, found in most of Africa (Milvus aegyptius).

yellow-billed loon
A duck, Gavia adamsii, found in the arctic and subarctic.

yellow-billed spoonbill
A species of spoonbill, Platalea flavipes, of Australia, having yellow facial skin, bill, and legs.

yellow-billed teal
The speckled teal.

yellow-billed tit-tyrant
A bird native to South America, Anairetes flavirostris

yellow-breasted bunting
Emberiza aureola, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.

yellow-breasted chat
A large yellow-colored songbird found on the American continent, Icteria virens

yellow-breasted greenfinch
Chloris spinoides, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, native to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.

yellow-browed antbird
Hypocnemis hypoxantha, a species of antbird.

yellow-browed bunting
Emberiza chrysophrys, a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae.