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#9080, aired 2024-04-12	AMERICAN BIRDS $400: Warily circling as hunters freeze & swear, the pintail type of this water bird is one of the most difficult to lure with a decoy a duck
#9080, aired 2024-04-12	AMERICAN BIRDS $800: If you're birding west of the Rockies, you're likely to catch sight of the California scrub type of this bird jay
#9080, aired 2024-04-12	AMERICAN BIRDS $1200: The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names hawk
#9080, aired 2024-04-12	AMERICAN BIRDS $1600: The long-billed curlew is nicknamed this bird & its Bay Area habitat is said to have lent that name to a point & a ballpark candlestick
#9080, aired 2024-04-12	AMERICAN BIRDS $2000: John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city & named a vireo after it the Philadelphia vireo
#9073, aired 2024-04-03	STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $600: Constellations named for birds include Cygnus, the swan, & Columba, this bird the dove
#9054, aired 2024-03-07	GITALONG, OLD PAINT $1200: This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839 John James Audubon
#9044, aired 2024-02-22	FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $1600: Daphne du Maurier penned this tale of gulls gone wild that later became an Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds
#9038, aired 2024-02-14	"AMERICAN" ORGANIZATIONS $1200: This organization, the AOS for short, is literally for the birds the American Ornithological Society
#9027, aired 2024-01-30	HOT FOR CREATURE $600: Birds don't have these glands, so they take heat out of their bodies using a version of panting sweat glands
#9020, aired 2024-01-19	THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $1000: Not just for the birds, & a Man Booker Prize finalist: "____ English" Pigeon
#2, aired 2024-01-12	KIDDY LIT $1000: In Janell Cannon's "Stellaluna", one of these flying animals is adopted by a family of birds a bat
#9007, aired 2024-01-02	HISTORIC LASTS $1600: Dying in 1914, Martha was the last of these alliterative birds; a monument to them said, "It died due to avarice of man" the passenger pigeon
#9004, aired 2023-12-28	HUNT & PECK $200: The "black" type of this, Africa's biggest venomous snake, hunts birds & rodents & can raise its head over a yard to strike mamba
#8997, aired 2023-12-19	AUSTRALIAN BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: This sweeping, multi-decade Colleen McCullough novel includes an ill-fated affair between a priest & a young woman The Thorn Birds
#8993, aired 2023-12-13	LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $600: A flock of these birds in motion, they're like little stars of the sky starlings
#8992, aired 2023-12-12	ANIMALS $600: A nide is a brood of these birds, perhaps the ring-necked ones a pheasant
#21, aired 2023-11-29	ALONG FOR THE RIDE $300: In the late 1800s, Florida experienced a craze in which people rode these birds that can sprint along at 40 mph an ostrich
#8964, aired 2023-11-02	COMPLETES THE PROVERB $200: "Birds of a feather flock ____" together
#19, aired 2023-11-01	COMPOSER PLAYLISTS $1000: "Living Room Music"; "Instances of Silence"; "Telephones and Birds"; "4'33"" John Cage
#8941, aired 2023-10-02	PROVERB VS. PROVERB $1600: Wait a minute--"Opposites attract", but these "flock together"? huh? birds of a feather
#8940, aired 2023-09-29	THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $400: Lesser in name only, millions of these pink wading birds gather to breed on large lakes in East Africa flamingos
#14, aired 2023-09-27	ALASKA $300: Alaska has more of these birds than any other U.S. state --and that's not even counting the ones on the backs of quarters bald eagles
#8936, aired 2023-09-25	FARMING PHRASES $2000: This type of social hierarchy is named for the way dominant poultry freely strike lesser birds pecking order
#8931, aired 2023-09-18	RESTAURANT HIJINKS $600: "Mine!" In 2018 an Aussie restaurant owner gave customers water pistols to keep these marine birds away at meals seagulls
#8930, aired 2023-09-15	SONG BIRDS $200: "Maybe you're just like my mother, she's never satisfied" is from this song in "Purple Rain" "When Doves Cry"
#8930, aired 2023-09-15	SONG BIRDS $400: John Mayer endured these carrion eaters "hiding right outside my door... They've never gone this long without a kill before" vultures
#8930, aired 2023-09-15	SONG BIRDS $600: "I'll raise you like a" this mythical bird, sang Fall Out Boy, who rhymed it with remix a phoenix
#8930, aired 2023-09-15	SONG BIRDS $800: In 2015 Lana Del Rey did croon this melancholy tune whose title refers to a farewell or final performance a "Swan Song"
#8930, aired 2023-09-15	SONG BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1960s Fleetwood Mac had an international hit with their song about one of these seabirds; Coleridge put one in a poem an albatross
#8925, aired 2023-07-28	BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Her scary story "The Birds" became a scary big-screen thriller (Daphne) du Maurier
#8916, aired 2023-07-17	STATE FLAGS $600: Reflecting a state nickname, one of these aquatic birds feeds its young on Louisiana's flag a pelican
#8900, aired 2023-06-23	QUI"ZZ"ICAL $400: Used by birds to help grind up ingested food, this internal organ is an enlargement of the alimentary canal gizzards
#8897, aired 2023-06-20	AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The demand for decorations on women's hats led Theodore Roosevelt to set up the USA's first 50 reserves for these birds
#8894, aired 2023-06-15	BIRD IDIOMS $200: If you keep late hours, you are one of these birds a night owl
#8883, aired 2023-05-31	THE NATURAL ORDER $400: All these flightless birds are in an order whose name means "wedge shaped", describing their wings penguins
#8882, aired 2023-05-30	THE BAND'S SONGS TELL A STORY $800: This quartet is on the "Adventure Of A Lifetime", flying "Up With The Birds" in "A Sky Full Of Stars" Coldplay
#18, aired 2023-05-23	THEIR OCCUPATIONAL SURNAMES $400: A variation on one who trains birds of prey: this author of "As I Lay Dying" Faulkner
#8872, aired 2023-05-16	ANIMALS $800: A recent study shows this large horned mammal tolerates parasitic oxpeckers because the birds hiss to warn it of predators a rhinoceros
#12, aired 2023-05-16	A NEW HOPE $800: In 1848, crickets swarmed Salt Lake Valley's crops but these birds miraculously showed up, saving the day seagulls
#5, aired 2023-05-10	YOU BUG ME $7,000 (Daily Double): Perhaps to kill parasites, some birds encourage angry ants to spray this substance on their plumage formic acid
#8861, aired 2023-05-01	"R" NATURE $1600: Beginning with the name of a chess piece, it's a place where birds like herons & egrets breed & nest rookery
#8833, aired 2023-03-22	LONG-LIVED CRITTERS $800: Having a leg up on life, one of these pink birds named Greater got to 83 living at Adelaide Zoo a flamingo
#8821, aired 2023-03-06	STUDY: GUIDES $2000: A guide app from this "Society" is free & has info on 800-plus species of North American birds, which should keep you busy the Audubon Society
#8820, aired 2023-03-03	COMPLETE THE PANGRAM $1000: Most birds don't, but "Jackdaws love my big Sphinx of" this mineral quartz
#8819, aired 2023-03-02	BIRDS NEAR WATER $200: This big-billed coastal native is featured on the flag of Louisiana a pelican
#8819, aired 2023-03-02	BIRDS NEAR WATER $400: Once a symbol of the Great Northern Wilderness, it's now happy in parks & municipal ponds a Canada goose
#8819, aired 2023-03-02	BIRDS NEAR WATER $600: Also the name of a Marine Corps aircraft, this raptor is alternately known as a fish eagle an osprey
#8819, aired 2023-03-02	BIRDS NEAR WATER $800: This species of African wading birds seen here shares its name with a similar-looking shark a hammerhead
#8819, aired 2023-03-02	BIRDS NEAR WATER $1000: This bird of the genus Actitis gets its name from running along seashores making short, high-pitched noises the sandpiper
#8791, aired 2023-01-23	CITY NAME CHANGES $200: This Arizona city might've been named for Stonewall Jackson, but residents decided that was for the mythical birds Phoenix
#11, aired 2023-01-19	THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $100: A line from this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury: "The books leapt & danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze" Fahrenheit 451
#8779, aired 2023-01-05	THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1200: The blindfold returns in--& on--"Malorie", the sequel to this "avian" horror novel Bird Box
#9, aired 2023-01-05	MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $300: Near the end of the alphabet: "any of various large raptorial birds... that subsist...on carrion" or a "predatory person" a vulture
#8774, aired 2022-12-29	TV TO SEE IN 2022 $400: Patriotic to the core, John Cena's Peacemaker has one of these birds as a pet a bald eagle
#8772, aired 2022-12-27	SCIENCE $400: This sweet plant secretion that's full of sucrose, fructose & glucose serves to attract pollinators like birds & bees nectar
#8768, aired 2022-12-21	SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest
#8766, aired 2022-12-19	BIRDS ARE REAL $200: Branta canadensis is the scientific name for this bird--honk!--that can be--honk!--loud &--honk! annoying a Canada goose
#8766, aired 2022-12-19	BIRDS ARE REAL $400: Lack of a fully developed syrinx keeps this long-necked bird mostly voiceless, perhaps not to wake the baby it's bringing a stork
#8766, aired 2022-12-19	BIRDS ARE REAL $600: Sharing its name with a pro baseball team, this orange & black bird with a 2-word name can also range down to South America a Baltimore Oriole
#8766, aired 2022-12-19	BIRDS ARE REAL $800: Boasting a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the red-tailed this bird of prey can reach speeds of 120 mph in a dive a hawk
#8766, aired 2022-12-19	BIRDS ARE REAL $1000: Facts about this seabird: Its 3-letter name has 2 vowels, it has short wings & webbed feet & it stands upright on land an auk
#8765, aired 2022-12-16	THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $800: Before the arrival of big cats over a new isthmus, flightless 10-foot terror birds were the apex predators of this continent South America
#8743, aired 2022-11-16	RAPPERS WHO ACT $600: (TV) judge for yourself--born in Trinidad, she signed to Lil Wayne's label in 2009 & voiced Pinky in "Angry Birds 2" Nicki Minaj
#8733, aired 2022-11-02	NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $1200: From the Sky Tower, you get a bird's-eye view of this New Zealand city that sounds like a nation for birds Auckland
#8731, aired 2022-10-31	FIVE CHANCES $1200: In an old superstition, to see five of these thieving birds at once meant company was coming a magpie
#8728, aired 2022-10-26	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness)
#8728, aired 2022-10-26	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: A little knowledge of this bird goes a long way an owl (in knowledge)
#8728, aired 2022-10-26	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: It lives in Europe & Asia, but not in Brooklyn a rook (in Brooklyn)
#8728, aired 2022-10-26	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: While riding my scooter, I spotted this old bird a coot (in scooter)
#8728, aired 2022-10-26	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: We're amazed by this sea eagle's cleverness erne (in cleverness)
#8720, aired 2022-10-14	AVANT-GARDE ART $800: Eduardo Kac's "Rara Avis" included a cage filled with these; a robotic one had a camera inside of it birds
#8719, aired 2022-10-13	WEIRD SCIENCE $1000: Liquids & solids are states of this that sit there; swirlons, such as flocks of birds, are parts of the newer concept of "active" this matter
#8708, aired 2022-09-28	NATURALISTS $1600: Jack Miner, a pioneer of doing this, to track birds, began a tradition of adding Bible verses to create flying missionaries tagging (banding)
#1, aired 2022-09-25	DIRECT ME TO THE DIRECTOR $200: In the 1960s he scared moviegoers with films like "Psycho" & "The Birds" Hitchcock
#8704, aired 2022-09-22	CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo a penguin
#8703, aired 2022-09-21	LAKES & RIVERS $200: The algae & shrimp of Kenya's Lake Nakuru are rich in beta carotene, giving its crowds of these wading birds their pink hue flamingoes
#8693, aired 2022-07-27	FICTION $1000: This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play Cloud Cuckoo Land
#8689, aired 2022-07-21	SPORTS VENUES $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1879 the first of several NYC venues to bear this name featured birds, flowers & fountains, so the name made more sense Madison Square Garden
#8680, aired 2022-07-08	GONE EXTINCT $1200: Cygnus falconeri was a 35-pound one of these birds that lived in Malta a swan
#8676, aired 2022-07-04	STARTS WITH "AU" $2000: In ancient Rome this person interpreted divine signs, often by observing birds an augur
#8662, aired 2022-06-14	THE MORAL OF THE FABLE $200: This avian proverb is the moral of the fable of a lone stork among cranes birds of a feather flock together
#8647, aired 2022-05-24	RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES $800: "California" these birds "Are Very Rare, But 10% of Them Are Trashing" a house in Tehachapi condors
#8626, aired 2022-04-25	I'LL FOLLOW YOU $800: There's a tradition of watching these birds follow their mother through school buildings in Reading, Mass. & Hopkins, Minn. ducklings
#8620, aired 2022-04-15	THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $1600: Not to be trusted as scientists, Coldplay claimed that "birds go flying at" this; they, in fact, do not the speed of sound
#8610, aired 2022-04-01	THANK YOU, THE INTERNET $400: Why yes, we watched this "Knight Rider" sing "Hooked On A Feeling" while he flew with a flock of birds & 2 kids dressed as angels David Hasselhoff
#8590, aired 2022-03-04	GENUS & SPECIES $400: Eudyptula, a genus of these Southern Hemisphere birds, means "good little diver"; the fairy type is Eudyptula minor penguin
#8587, aired 2022-03-01	BLISSFUL STANZAS $2,000 (Daily Double): Vivaldi published poems with this 1725 work; one began, "Spring has arrived with joy / Welcomed by the birds with happy songs" The Four Seasons
#8582, aired 2022-02-22	TWEETS $1600: Genus Megascops, it has a shrill call like the whinny of a horse & is one of the most nocturnal of birds, so it's more heard than seen a screech owl
#8580, aired 2022-02-18	STATE QUARTERS $200: Louisiana's quarter features a trumpet & one of these birds a pelican
#8578, aired 2022-02-16	OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $1200: A gorget is a patch of distinctive color on this part of certain birds like hummingbirds the throat
#3, aired 2022-02-09	WINTER $400: This winter state of dormancy is a mammal thing; the poorwill is one of a few birds that do it instead of migrating hibernation
#2, aired 2022-02-08	STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $200: (Josh Clark reads the clue.) Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful a parakeet
#8550, aired 2022-01-07	4-LETTER BIRDS $400: On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns a rook
#8550, aired 2022-01-07	4-LETTER BIRDS $800: The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler wren
#8550, aired 2022-01-07	4-LETTER BIRDS $1200: You can tell the "mourning" species of this by its characteristic call & long, pointed tail dove
#8550, aired 2022-01-07	4-LETTER BIRDS $1600: A bufflehead, teal or merganser, for example a duck
#8550, aired 2022-01-07	4-LETTER BIRDS $2000: A "true" this is a member of the swift, predatory genus Accipiter hawk
#8528, aired 2021-12-08	FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB $600: Used to hunt birds, these curved throwing weapons, like those used by the Aborigines of Australia boomerangs
#8526, aired 2021-12-06	FINALS $2000: Sadly, the last two of these great birds were killed off the coast of Iceland in 1844 for a private collector the auk
#8491, aired 2021-10-18	BIRD BRAINS $200: Some birds wield twigs & sticks to accomplish tasks, making them among the handful of animals known to use these tools
#8491, aired 2021-10-18	BIRD BRAINS $400: On a "Nova" special, a bird easily beat 2 of these "French" dogs in a race to get food from a puzzle box poodles
#8491, aired 2021-10-18	BIRD BRAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Scientists think the corvids, including the American & carrion this, are the smartest of all birds a crow
#8491, aired 2021-10-18	DISNEY SONGS $1000: "Feed The Birds" from this film was said to be one of Walt Disney's personal favorites Mary Poppins
#8477, aired 2021-09-28	& IN A SUPPORTING ROLE $400: Jurnee Smollett was fantabulous as Black Canary in "Birds of Prey: and the fantabulous emancipation of one" this lead character Harley Quinn
#8477, aired 2021-09-28	LIFE & WORK IN ANCIENT ROME $1600: An auspex read omens from watching the movements of these animals from which the word auspex partly derives birds
#8471, aired 2021-09-20	COMMON BONDS $800: Birds, angels, the stage in a theater wings
#8458, aired 2021-08-04	ANTON CHEKHOV $10,000 (Daily Double): In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", an albatross gets killed; in an 1896 Chekhov play, it's one of these birds seagull
#8448, aired 2021-07-21	BIRDING $400: The highest-rated these for bird-watching include the Bushnell Legend Ultra HD binoculars
#8448, aired 2021-07-21	BIRDING $800: A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song a robin
#8448, aired 2021-07-21	BIRDING $1200: birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see a California condor
#8448, aired 2021-07-21	BIRDING $1600: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders a field guide
#8448, aired 2021-07-21	BIRDING $2000: For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered a life list
#8443, aired 2021-07-14	ODD HISTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): The Great Emu War of 1932 proved disastrous for this country's army; the big birds were no chickens Australia
#8436, aired 2021-07-05	THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET $800: Big birds of the world include the 6-foot, 30-pound Dalmatian variety of this avian with a large bill & an elastic throat pouch a pelican
#8433, aired 2021-06-30	BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $200: "Mockingbird" is Charles Shields' portrait of this author & the creation of her most acclaimed work Harper Lee
#8433, aired 2021-06-30	BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $400: "Skylark" is Patricia MacLachlan's follow-up to her novel about this young woman who was "Plain & Tall" Sarah
#8433, aired 2021-06-30	BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $600: Beatrix Potter wrote & illustrated "The Tale of" this puddle-duck Jemima
#8433, aired 2021-06-30	BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $800: Henry James told a tale of a dying heiress in "The Wings of" this bird the Dove
#8433, aired 2021-06-30	BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister
#8422, aired 2021-06-15	HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME $400: These high nests for birds of prey, like the osprey, may take their name from the Latin for a "vacant place" aerie
#8398, aired 2021-05-12	BIRDS OF PRAY $400: Jesus said this man will deny him three times before the cock crows twice; here, he is in shame after that comes true Peter
#8398, aired 2021-05-12	BIRDS OF PRAY $800: You may have heard of one of these that laid golden eggs; Buddha told of how, in a former life, he was one with golden feathers a goose
#8398, aired 2021-05-12	BIRDS OF PRAY $1,000 (Daily Double): The guru Granth Sahib of this faith uses birds like the flamingo & crane to draw parallels between man & the divine Sikhism
#8398, aired 2021-05-12	BIRDS OF PRAY $1200: In the Koran a bird that could speak told this "wise" king & prophet it had come from Sheba with tidings Solomon
#8398, aired 2021-05-12	BIRDS OF PRAY $1600: In one of his most famous sermons, this Italian saint told his bird buddies they have an obligation to praise their creator St. Francis
#8394, aired 2021-05-06	HYBRID ANIMAL PARENTS $200: Among birds, the swoose a swan & goose
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	THE BIRDS $200: The world's largest bird's egg is this one's, reaching 6 inches around & 3 pounds an ostrich
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	THE BIRDS $400: Jesus tells his Apostles going out into the world to be as harmless as these birds doves
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	THE BIRDS $600: This bird with up to 70 wingbeats per second camouflages its nest with lichens a hummingbird
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	DISSECTING THE LYRICS $800: "There were plants & birds & rocks & things", noticed America in "A" this "With No Name", & that's hard to argue a horse
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	THE BIRDS $800: Birds of prey are also called these, from the Latin for "to seize" raptors
#8380, aired 2021-04-16	THE BIRDS $1000: Here's the male one of these ruffed birds putting on a display for the ladies a grouse
#8373, aired 2021-04-07	LITERARY ANIMALS $600: In books by Kathryn Lasky, the guardians of Ga'Hoole are a band of these birds that do noble deeds owls
#8364, aired 2021-03-25	IN A TEACUP $1000: A house one of these birds enjoys some seeds & rest in a teacup bird feeder a finch
#8354, aired 2021-03-11	FLAGS OF OUR FEATHERS $400: One of these birds not native to the area flies proudly on the flag of American Samoa an eagle
#8337, aired 2021-02-16	NATURAL CONSTRUCTION $2000: Because of their sophisticated nests, birds of the genus Ploceus are called these--but they don't need looms weavers
#8336, aired 2021-02-15	MEAN TWEETERS $400: Red, Chuck, Bomb & Matilda are these surly characters in a Rovio game app Angry Birds
#8331, aired 2021-02-08	NON-VOCABULARY $2000: Some birds are nonmigratory, including the Anna's variety of this very busy avian a hummingbird
#8329, aired 2021-02-04	POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these "vast birds of the sea" who famously show up in an English poem albatrosses
#8321, aired 2021-01-25	NATURE $400: Sadly, less than 200 years after they were spotted by Portuguese sailors, these flightless birds of Mauritius became extinct the dodo
#8306, aired 2021-01-04	-OLOGIES $1600: This -ology is for bird brains & bird beaks, habitats, migration & everything else that deals with birds ornithology
#8304, aired 2020-12-17	AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $400: Flannery O'Connor kept these vibrant birds & sent their ornate tail feathers as gifts a peacock
#8301, aired 2020-12-14	MOVIES BY MATCHUP $1200: From 1978: the T-Birds vs. the Scorpions Grease
#8291, aired 2020-11-30	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: Big bird, indeed! One of these can grow to over 8 feet tall an ostrich
#8291, aired 2020-11-30	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $500 (Daily Double): Mason & carpenter bees are classified as this type that practices social distancing full time solitary bees
#8291, aired 2020-11-30	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $600: Seen here is the roseate species of this bird, named for the shape of its beak the spoonbill
#8291, aired 2020-11-30	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: The peregrine species of this bird is known to dive at 200 miles per hour a falcon
#8291, aired 2020-11-30	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1000: About 4 times larger than a honeybee, the rare Wallace's giant is native to this country's North Moluccas Islands Indonesia
#8267, aired 2020-10-27	BIBLE-POURRI $600: Isaiah 31 says that like birds flying, the Lord will protect this city & deliver it from strife Jerusalem
#8265, aired 2020-10-23	THAT IS SO SOCAL $1200: The first of these large birds hatched in captivity was born at the San Diego Zoo in 1983 a California condor
#8261, aired 2020-10-19	NOVEL $400: Sort of a woodland Shazam, the Song Sleuth app helps nature lovers identify these by their calls birds
#8259, aired 2020-10-15	A PAIR OF PENCE $600: A song title in "Mary Poppins" urges you to do this, "tuppence a bag" feed the birds
#8245, aired 2020-09-25	FLICK OF SEAGULLS $2000: A lone seagull draws first blood on this actress in Hitchcock's "The Birds" Tippi Hedren
#8227, aired 2020-06-02	BIRDS OF PREY $200: These birds of prey are largely nocturnal, but the snowy type often hunts by day an owl
#8227, aired 2020-06-02	BIRDS OF PREY $400: Found in South America, the harpy is a crested variety of this bird of prey with a wingspan that can reach seven feet an eagle
#8227, aired 2020-06-02	BIRDS OF PREY $600: The largest bird of prey is this Western Hemisphere vulture that can fly 18,000 feet high & weigh 30 pounds the condor
#8227, aired 2020-06-02	BIRDS OF PREY $800: One of the only terrestrial birds of prey is this species whose name seems more suited for an office than its home in Africa the secretary bird
#8227, aired 2020-06-02	BIRDS OF PREY $1000: Reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour, this bird of prey is not only the world's fastest bird, it's also the world's fastest animal the peregrine falcon
#8217, aired 2020-05-19	GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK $1600: "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's" this fall in love
#8205, aired 2020-04-17	PETS $600: There are more than 300 species of these raucous birds of the family Psittacidae to choose from & some live to be 80 parrots
#8198, aired 2020-04-08	BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $1000: Political tension surrounds 2 Turkish children in Ece Temelkuran's "The Time of Mute" these birds Swans
#8191, aired 2020-03-30	THE MASTERS (OF ART) $400: The first great engraver was the 1440s "Master of the Playing Cards", which had 5 of these (flowers, wild men, birds, beasts, deer) suits
#8191, aired 2020-03-30	BIRDIES $400: Flightless birds range from the 6-inch rail of the south Atlantic to this 9-footer an ostrich
#8184, aired 2020-03-19	ADJECTIVES FOR ANIMALS $1600: This word describes birds that travel great distances during certain seasons of the year migratory
#8180, aired 2020-03-13	PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: 3 birds are smashed together in this word as well as in the resulting poultry dish turducken
#8158, aired 2020-02-12	A FINE LINE $1200: From this ancient fable author's "The Jay and the Peacock": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds" Aesop
#8140, aired 2020-01-17	DEUTERONOMY'S CLEAN & UNCLEAN ANIMALS $1200: The Ugly Duckling dodged a bullet--these birds of the genus Cygnus are deemed unclean to eat swans
#8131, aired 2020-01-06	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $400: Jesus tells him "The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice" Peter
#8131, aired 2020-01-06	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $800: Jesus laments that he would have gathered the children of Jerusalem as she gathers her brood under her wings a hen
#8131, aired 2020-01-06	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1200: Harry Potter likes the passage in Job that reads, "I am a brother to dragons and a companion to" these birds an owl
#8131, aired 2020-01-06	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This tall flightless bird was supposedly uncaring about its own young, as in Job & Lamentations the ostrich
#8131, aired 2020-01-06	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $2000: The Lord told Moses, "I bare you on" these birds' wings eagles' wings
#8126, aired 2019-12-30	POND $400: Families feeding birds have led to the nickname "world's biggest bread soup" for Tjörnin Pond in this Icelandic capital Reykjavik
#8125, aired 2019-12-27	BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $400: After the birth of Jesus, the Virgin Mary makes an offering of 2 of these birds doves
#8121, aired 2019-12-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: Bullock's & Baltimore orioles
#8121, aired 2019-12-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: Blue & Steller's jays
#8121, aired 2019-12-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Black & mute swans
#8121, aired 2019-12-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1600: Rivoli's & bumblebee hummingbirds
#8121, aired 2019-12-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2000: Greylag & barnacle geese
#8114, aired 2019-12-12	BIOLOGY $400: Unlike mammals, birds regenerate cells within their ears, so the barn type of this doesn't lose its incredible hearing with age an owl
#8106, aired 2019-12-02	2019 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVEL PHOTO CONTEST $800: Vultures can soar gracefully for hours and are classified, along with hawks and eagles, as these, from the Latin for "to seize" raptors (*birds of prey)
#8083, aired 2019-10-30	ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $400: 2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds a vampire bat
#8083, aired 2019-10-30	ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD $1200: Birds called kites include one that doesn't fly very fast; it doesn't need to as it eats only one species of this gastropod a snail
#8079, aired 2019-10-24	HAVE AN AGUILA! $200: "Águila" is Spanish for one of these birds an eagle
#8077, aired 2019-10-22	WHAT DO YOU LOVE? $600: Ornithophile birds
#8076, aired 2019-10-21	"T" BIRDS $400: It's the tropical bird seen here a toucan
#8076, aired 2019-10-21	"T" BIRDS $800: In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead the turkey
#8076, aired 2019-10-21	"T" BIRDS $1200: This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color a teal duck
#8076, aired 2019-10-21	"T" BIRDS $1600: This swan is named for its low-pitched call a trumpeter swan
#8076, aired 2019-10-21	"T" BIRDS $2000: Scarlet is one species of this songbird the scarlet tanager
#8074, aired 2019-10-17	4-WORD EXCHANGE $200: In a proverb they "flock together" birds of a feather
#8071, aired 2019-10-14	I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $400: Including whoopers, this is "a family of large birds with long legs and a long neck" cranes
#8055, aired 2019-09-20	THAT USED TO HAPPEN? $1600: At the 1900 Olympics more than 300 of these birds were killed in a single sporting event pigeons
#8050, aired 2019-09-13	HUNTING & FISHING $200: Also a poker hand, in hunting this word means to cause game birds to break cover or take flight flush
#8048, aired 2019-09-11	HOBBIES & PASTIMES $600: Clay pigeons simulating birds in flight are mechanically lofted skyward in this pastime; pull! skeet (or trap shooting)
#8043, aired 2019-07-24	KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $200: In John 1:3 the spirit of God is described as descending like one of these peaceful birds upon Jesus a dove
#8043, aired 2019-07-24	KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $400: Ships in King Solomon's navy return home with some of these bright-feathered iridescent birds peacocks
#8043, aired 2019-07-24	KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $600: This bulky warrior boasts that he'll feed David's body to the birds; oops! Goliath
#8043, aired 2019-07-24	KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $1000: Exodus chapter 16 recounts how flocks of these birds appeared one evening at sunset & fed the hungry Israelites quail
#8037, aired 2019-07-16	IN THE AIR $1200: A murmuration of these stellar birds is seen in Spain making some pretty shapes starlings
#8032, aired 2019-07-09	SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $1000: "Origami Birds" & "Monkey's Story" are tunes in this 2016 movie that references a musical instrument Kubo and the Two Strings
#8017, aired 2019-06-18	APPROPRIATE FOR MINERS $2000: In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines canaries
#8011, aired 2019-06-10	ANIMAL TALK $2,000 (Daily Double): The norm in mammals & birds is a nictitating membrane, also called the third this--humans are weird in lacking it an eyelid
#8006, aired 2019-06-03	NESTS $1000: Doesn't sound comfy, but several birds make nests in the giant saguaro cactus, including the Gila variety of this headbanger a woodpecker
#8002, aired 2019-05-28	GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $800: It's a murder of crows & an unkindness of these related birds ravens
#8001, aired 2019-05-27	NATIONAL FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS $1000: Swords, rifles, a scroll declaring "libertad" & a resplendent one of these birds are found on Guatemala's flag a quetzal
#7999, aired 2019-05-23	CHANGE YOUR M*I*N*D* $1200: This carnivore of the weasel family will feed on frogs, fish & occasionally birds a mink
#7992, aired 2019-05-14	GAME OF THORNS $600: A thwarted love affair between a Catholic priest & a young woman in Australia is at the heart of this 1977 bestseller The Thorn Birds
#7989, aired 2019-05-09	EVERY ANIMAL HAS ITS DAY $1000: The world day for these birds, whether emperor or gentoo, is April 25 a penguin
#7986, aired 2019-05-06	CLICHES $200: To achieve a pair of goals with a single effort is to do this, perhaps using a slingshot kill two birds with one stone
#7980, aired 2019-04-26	PLAYERS ON THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM $400: 2014: Russell Wilson & Richard Sherman, birds of a feather the Seahawks
#7971, aired 2019-04-15	LET'S GO TO THE WILDLIFE REFUGE $400: Oregon's Finley Wildlife Refuge was created for these honking birds that come down from Alaska & Canada every fall Canada geese
#7971, aired 2019-04-15	LET'S GO TO THE WILDLIFE REFUGE $2000: New York's Seatuck Refuge is home to these birds of prey also known as fish eagles osprey
#7963, aired 2019-04-03	____ OF ____ $200: Because they hunt & feed on other animals, hawks & eagles are classified as these birds of prey
#7959, aired 2019-03-28	FOR THE BIRDS $400: Birds are unique in having these, the obvious characteristic that distinguished them from all other modern animals feathers
#7959, aired 2019-03-28	FOR THE BIRDS $800: Birds do it, bees do it, it being this act that fertilizes flowers; hummingbirds & honeycreepers are noted for it pollination
#7959, aired 2019-03-28	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak a toucan
#7959, aired 2019-03-28	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: Appropriately, the sacred type of this bird was sacred to ancient Egyptians an ibis
#7959, aired 2019-03-28	FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem an albatross
#7938, aired 2019-02-27	A WALK IN THE PARK $400: Walk through Philly's Pennypack Park, not far from Temple University, & you might see a great horned one of these birds an owl
#7931, aired 2019-02-18	STILL I RISE $400: Bodybuilders can only dream of pecs, short for these muscles, as developed as the ones that help birds take off pectorals
#7930, aired 2019-02-15	THE WORLD ALMANAC 2019 $400: In the offbeat news section: A French theme park has trained 6 of these black birds to pick up bits of trash to earn treats crows
#7925, aired 2019-02-08	FAUX AMIS $800: In French C-O-I-N isn't money; coin means corner & coin-coin is what these birds say ducks
#7919, aired 2019-01-31	DISASTER AVERTED $1000: The Calif. species of these birds is credited with flying in to gorge on crickets & save the crops of Utah pioneers in 1847 a (California) gull
#7913, aired 2019-01-23	POPULAR LITERATURE $800: Dame Daphne du Maurier's works made into Hitchcock films include "Rebecca" & this high-flying novelette The Birds
#7904, aired 2019-01-10	MENAGERIE $1600: Generally graceful & long-legged, these wading birds also come in a medium-sized night type heron
#7903, aired 2019-01-09	CHARLES DARWIN $600: Darwin is known for finches, but his passion at home were these urban birds--he amassed more than 90 of them pigeons
#7902, aired 2019-01-08	BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY BATTLES $400: This singer beat Counting Crows in 1995--& she has one of those birds in her name Sheryl Crow
#7901, aired 2019-01-07	A BIRD $1200: In the song "The 12 Days Of Christmas", it's the largest group of birds given on a single day, the seventh swans (a-swimming)
#7901, aired 2019-01-07	A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes
#7893, aired 2018-12-26	DEATH ON THE NILE $400: This virus that kills both birds & humans was first isolated in Uganda in 1937 West Nile Virus
#7884, aired 2018-12-13	A SCIENCE BOOK $800: A 65-million-year-old story is told in "Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became" these birds
#7884, aired 2018-12-13	THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST $1000: A couple of these birds that winter in central Africa? Oh, my true love, you shouldn't have! Really. I mean that turtle doves
#7860, aired 2018-11-09	NATURE $400: The Goliath birdeater, which eats rodents & reptiles as well as birds, is an extra large variety of this hairy spider a tarantula
#7860, aired 2018-11-09	TO GRIND $1600: To grind their food, birds use this organ that also starts with "G" gizzard
#7841, aired 2018-10-15	ROOST-ERS $600: Abandoned mines provide favorite roosts for about half the USA's 45 species of these non-birds bats
#7841, aired 2018-10-15	ROOST-ERS $800: Seen here, roosting in silhouette, are these birds that share a name with a chess piece rooks
#7839, aired 2018-10-11	ISLE OF DOGS $1600: This Spanish island group that was once home to the Guanche people was named for large dogs, not birds the Canary Islands
#7835, aired 2018-10-05	THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $1200: Inductee Brandon Stoddard oversaw "Roots", "The Winds of War" & "The Thorn Birds", the 3 most-watched these in TV history miniseries
#7828, aired 2018-09-26	VIDEO GAMES $800: In the classic video game "Joust", contestants were placed upon these birds ostriches
#7826, aired 2018-09-24	I'M A HUGE FAN! $1600: Jimmy Buffett's fans are Parrot Heads; children of Parrot Heads & younger fans are known as these little birds Parakeets
#7782, aired 2018-06-12	THE FOUR SEASONS $1600: Proverbially, one of these birds "doesn't make a summer" one swallow
#7779, aired 2018-06-07	I'LL HAVE SECONDS $600: A pair of these birds is the second gift in "The 12 Days Of Christmas" song turtledoves
#7779, aired 2018-06-07	PRINCE $800: Prince's pet birds Majesty & Divinity still live at Paisley Park & remind visitors of this song, Prince's first No. 1 hit "When Doves Cry"
#7772, aired 2018-05-29	THE FOOD CHAIN $800: Turtles, birds & carrion are on the menu for Galeocerdo cuvier, the tiger this shark
#7768, aired 2018-05-23	GIVE US THE BIRD $800: Only penguins, flamingoes & these familiar city birds produce milk chemically similar to that of mammals pigeons
#7762, aired 2018-05-15	A VIDEO GAME MENAGERIE $800: Bad Piggies is a spin-off of this popular mobile game Angry Birds
#7741, aired 2018-04-16	HODGEPODGE $400: Each November the president ceremonially pardons one or more of these birds a turkey
#7735, aired 2018-04-06	UNUSUAL ANIMALS $400: As well as a duck bill, this Aussie monotreme has a cloaca, an organ common in birds a platypus
#7727, aired 2018-03-27	A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $1200: In the stories of Jason & the Argonauts, these horrible creatures are represented as birds with the faces of women harpies
#7727, aired 2018-03-27	A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $1600: He was really good at painting birds--look for yourself Audubon
#7725, aired 2018-03-23	CHARACTERS WHO DON'T TALK MUCH $1600: This "I Am Sam" actor & Oscar winner only growled as Terence in "The Angry Birds Movie" Sean Penn
#7696, aired 2018-02-12	THE EXPLORER $200: In 1911 Antarctic explorer George Levick noted behavior in these birds so bizarre it wasn't published for a century a penguin
#7678, aired 2018-01-17	GALAPAGOS ADAPTATION $1000: (Alex presents the clue from the Galápagos.) The pigment carotenoid, from the fish they consume, is the source of the blue on the feet of these birds--the brighter the blue, the healthier they appear to potential mates the blue-footed booby
#7644, aired 2017-11-30	IN THE JUNGLE $2000: Hawaii's forests have many types of these, including the apapane & the honeycreeper birds
#7632, aired 2017-11-14	DOCUMENTARIES $800: The birds in this 2005 nature documentary walk single file to their Antarctic breeding grounds March of the Penguins
#7628, aired 2017-11-08	WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $400: An oologist (birds') eggs
#7616, aired 2017-10-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: The state bird for 7 states, it shares its name with a senior position in the Catholic church a cardinal
#7616, aired 2017-10-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: This wandering high flyer can have an 11-foot wingspan an albatross
#7616, aired 2017-10-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Chaucer wrote a poem called this assembly "of Fowls"; it's also a term for an assembly of owls a parliament
#7616, aired 2017-10-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2000: The "P" in its name is silent, and its plumage is nearly invisible as it changes from light brown in summer to a winter white a ptarmigan
#7616, aired 2017-10-23	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $5,000 (Daily Double): Of the ratites, flightless land birds, this down under denizen is the smallest a kiwi
#7599, aired 2017-09-28	FROM "S" TO "T" $800: In this form of trapshooting, clay targets simulate birds in flight skeet
#7597, aired 2017-09-26	INSECTS $2000: Some birds put ants in their feathers, maybe because the ants spray this caustic acid, killing parasites formic acid
#7588, aired 2017-09-13	"L" $1200: These birds have longer tails and longer names than the very similar lories a lorikeet
#7587, aired 2017-09-12	ART & ARTISTS $600: Dürer depicted this Roman hero at labor, shooting the man-eating birds of the Stymphalian marshes Hercules
#7578, aired 2017-07-19	TELL ME "Y" $1600: The red berries attract birds & the durable wood of this evergreen tree is often used to make archery bows a yew
#7561, aired 2017-06-26	I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $2000: William MacGillivray helped write "Ornithological Biography", the text that accompanied his "Birds of America" John James Audubon
#7558, aired 2017-06-21	ANTHROPOLOGY $800: Wealth to the Yurok Indians included having albino deerskins & the scalps of these tree-drilling birds woodpeckers
#7537, aired 2017-05-23	CREATURES IN MYTHOLOGY $800: When Apollo was born, his father Zeus gave him a golden chariot pulled by these white water birds swans
#7520, aired 2017-04-28	CLUES ACROSS OHIO $800: (Hi, I'm Jerry Henderson from WTOL 11.) One of minor league baseball's best-known teams, the Mud Hens of this Ohio city, got their unusual nickname in 1896 from the duck-like birds in a nearby marsh Toledo
#7518, aired 2017-04-26	NOVEL COUNTRIES $400: "The Thorn Birds" Australia
#7488, aired 2017-03-15	PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $200: This city is bird-brained, boasting the Falcons & the Hawks (the Thrashers flew off to Winnipeg) Atlanta
#7488, aired 2017-03-15	PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $400: Jose Bautista went north to become Joey Bats, author of an iconic 2016 bat flip for this team the Toronto Blue Jays
#7488, aired 2017-03-15	PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $600: Go, Pinocchios! Nope...yay, Bambis! No...as far as we can tell, it's the only NHL team that got its name from a Disney film the (Anaheim) Ducks
#7488, aired 2017-03-15	PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $800: In 2005 Larry Fitzgerald caught 103 passes, including 10 TDs, for this team the Arizona Cardinals
#7488, aired 2017-03-15	PRO TEAMS ARE FOR THE BIRDS $1000: Until 2010 this Metropolitan Division team played its NHL home games in an arena known as the Igloo the Pittsburgh Penguins
#7436, aired 2017-01-02	FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS $800: Peru's flag was inspired by a flock of these wading birds, though it's red & white, not pink & white flamingoes
#7431, aired 2016-12-26	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $400: In this address Jesus asks, "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not...yet your heavenly father feedeth them" the Sermon on the Mount
#7431, aired 2016-12-26	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $800: Job 39 asks "Doth" this large predatory bird "mount up at they command and make her nest on high?" an eagle
#7431, aired 2016-12-26	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1200: The osprey, vulture & cormorant are among birds said to be unclean in this 3rd book of the Old Testament Leviticus
#7431, aired 2016-12-26	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $1600: This king's pursuit of his son-in-law David is compared to a partridge hunt in the mountains Saul
#7431, aired 2016-12-26	BIRDS IN THE BIBLE $2000: In the wilderness God provided the Israelites manna & large quantities of this small plump game bird quail
#7427, aired 2016-12-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $200: Western screech, snowy, elf owls
#7427, aired 2016-12-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: Calliope, Anna's, ruby-throated hummingbirds
#7427, aired 2016-12-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800 (Daily Double): Mute, Bewick's, trumpeter swans
#7427, aired 2016-12-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: Cactus, Carolina, house wrens
#7427, aired 2016-12-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1000: Andean condor, turkey, Egyptian vultures
#7424, aired 2016-12-15	TEXAS $800: An 860-pound statue of one of these speedy birds welcomes you to Fort Stockton, Texas a road runner
#7420, aired 2016-12-09	BALLET UP TO THE BARRE $1600: This Russian ballerina is seen here at her home; note the birds in the background Anna Pavlova
#7398, aired 2016-11-09	NOTABLE TEENS $2000: As a teen, this "Birds of America" artist conducted the first bird-banding on the continent by using thread Audubon
#7388, aired 2016-10-26	EMPTY NEST $1000: It's the best-known avian practitioner of brood parasitism, in which it lays its eggs in other birds' nests to hatch & raise a cuckoo
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	STATE BIRDS $200: These 2 smallest states both have a variety of chicken as their state birds Rhode Island & Delaware
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	STATE BIRDS $400: This orange & black state bird of Maryland is also called a Firebird or golden robin the Baltimore oriole
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	STATE BIRDS $800: South Dakota's state bird, the ring-necked species of this is native to Asia & was introduced to the state in 1898 pheasant
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	STATE BIRDS $1000: The scientific name of this Arkansas state bird means "many-tongued mimic" the mockingbird
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	STATE BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The cactus wren represents this state where Cardinals play Arizona
#7372, aired 2016-10-04	I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE $800: The feather covering on birds; it has a more drab type that appears on the young to camouflage them plumage
#7347, aired 2016-07-19	EXODUS $1200: "Jamming" & "Three Little Birds" were 2 of the songs on his landmark album "Exodus" (Bob) Marley
#7332, aired 2016-06-28	'BYE, RACHEL! COUPLES $2000: Briefly a couple in the Studio 54 era were RFK's son David & this "Thorn Birds" Rachel Rachel Ward
#7331, aired 2016-06-27	FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE $1600: Birds can't taste this pungent compound found in hot peppers, so they eat them & spread the seeds far & wide capsaicin
#7324, aired 2016-06-16	DINO $200: The name of dinosaurs known as ornithopods tells us they had feet shaped like those of these creatures birds
#7323, aired 2016-06-15	AUSTRAILIAN WILDLIFE $2000: 2 of the world's 3 largest birds live in Australia & both are flightless: the cassowary & this one an emu
#7318, aired 2016-06-08	DIRTY BIRDS $200: Hardened sap from its drill holes typically surrounds the nest of the red-cockaded this woodpecker
#7318, aired 2016-06-08	DIRTY BIRDS $400: Loving soil more than sky, & not nocturnal like its kin, there's a burrowing type of this raptor a burrowing owl
#7318, aired 2016-06-08	DIRTY BIRDS $600: Since 1896 a Toledo baseball team has been known as these swamp dwellers the Mud Hens
#7318, aired 2016-06-08	DIRTY BIRDS $800: A 2014 study says the guts of these scavengers are adapted to not get sick from their putrid diet vultures
#7318, aired 2016-06-08	DIRTY BIRDS $1000: Yeah, baby! This "C" bird that produces guano, valued as fertilizer, is also called a shag the cormorant
#7309, aired 2016-05-26	BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1200: To achieve dual goals with a single effort is to do this, perhaps with a pebble--ready, aim, throw! kill two birds with one stone
#7301, aired 2016-05-16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $200: Bald, harpy an eagle
#7301, aired 2016-05-16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: American, European (aka redbreast) a robin
#7301, aired 2016-05-16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $600: Mourning & Oriental turtle- dove
#7301, aired 2016-05-16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: Scrub, Steller's, blue a jay
#7301, aired 2016-05-16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1000: Red-headed, red-bellied, red-breasted sapsucker a woodpecker
#7298, aired 2016-05-11	STOPPED BREATHING IN THE 1800s $400: This painter who was for the North American birds drew his last breath on Jan. 27, 1851 Audubon
#7296, aired 2016-05-09	"A" & "B" MOVIES $400: A popular game inspired the new movie about this title group, starring Jason Sudeikis as Red "Beak! Wing! Tail! Ribs! Giblets! Ugh. Pluck my life." Angry Birds
#7285, aired 2016-04-22	BEASTS IN THE BIBLE $400: Proverbs warns that mocking your parents will result in these crowlike birds pecking out your eyes ravens
#7285, aired 2016-04-22	CHILDREN'S BOOK TITLES $1000: "Make Way for" these baby birds Ducklings
#7281, aired 2016-04-18	PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1600: There are 3 birds jammed into this portmanteau word for the poultry dish equivalent of Russian nesting dolls a turducken
#7267, aired 2016-03-29	"B" & "B" $200: Animal pair involved in indoctrination about reproduction the birds and the bees
#7251, aired 2016-03-07	LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $400: This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town To Kill a Mockingbird
#7251, aired 2016-03-07	LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $800: In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws & more live & die in the title Texas town (Larry) McMurtry
#7251, aired 2016-03-07	LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers The Thorn Birds
#7251, aired 2016-03-07	LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $2000: The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this Woodpecker
#7251, aired 2016-03-07	LITERATURE IS FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for, & if she doesn't get help, she might be next The Pelican Brief
#7244, aired 2016-02-25	THE NATURAL WORLD $2000: These birds, like the North American white, catch their prey by using an expandable throat pouch called a dip-net a pelican
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $200: A house for birds & a house for bees aviary & apiary
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: This country's flightless Auckland Island & Campbell Island teals are among the rarest ducks in the world New Zealand
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: This largest penguin breeds in the coldest environment of any bird the emperor
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1600: This largest Australian bird adds pebbles to its diet to help digest the plant material that it eats an emu
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the fastest of all flightless birds the ostrich
#7237, aired 2016-02-16	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $2000: This large bird of New Guinea has a casque, or helmet, made of a spongelike material covered with keratin a cassowary
#7231, aired 2016-02-08	STAMPS $1600: The Coastal Birds postcard stamp set includes this wading bird that's named for a prominent facial feature the spoonbill
#7198, aired 2015-12-23	AN EMOTIONAL CATEGORY $400: This game from Rovio has been downloaded more than 2 billion times Angry Birds
#7191, aired 2015-12-14	ANIMAL GROUPS $200: A group of these black birds is known as an unkindness; you can "quoth" me on that ravens
#7186, aired 2015-12-07	BROOKFIELD ZOO $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) The great horned owl's powerful talons allow it to seize prey as large as skunks & raccoons, so it's perfectly adapted to be one of these hunting birds, from a word meaning "abductor" a raptor
#7173, aired 2015-11-18	VIDEO GAME VILLAINS $200: King Pig is the lazy overlord of this game you can play on your smartphone Angry Birds
#7173, aired 2015-11-18	NATIONAL PHRASES $600: When the wind's just right, these noisy birds can cover 1,500 miles in 24 hours during their migration Canada geese
#7169, aired 2015-11-12	THINKING $2000: A family of young birds, or to think or worry when you do it "over" something brood
#7156, aired 2015-10-26	COMPLETES THE PROVERB $200: "Birds of a feather flock ____" together
#7153, aired 2015-10-21	NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS $600: You can adopt a bird to support the conservation society named for this ornithologist & painter of birds Audubon
#7149, aired 2015-10-15	OLYMPIC DEMONSTRATION SPORTS $600: Mike Tyson would've been down for racing these birds, which was on the demonstration docket in 1900 pigeons
#7139, aired 2015-10-01	BLUE BIRDS $200: Both blue-faced boobies & blue-footed boobies nest in these Ecuadorian islands the Galápagos
#7139, aired 2015-10-01	BLUE BIRDS $400: The smallest species of this bird, the fairy or little blue, nests in burrows, not in the ice & snow a penguin
#7139, aired 2015-10-01	BLUE BIRDS $600: Found across North America, the blue-winged teal is a small dabbling one of these birds a duck
#7139, aired 2015-10-01	BLUE BIRDS $800: As well as the great blue, there is a little blue type of this long-legged wading bird a heron
#7139, aired 2015-10-01	BLUE BIRDS $1000: The blue bird seen here is Steller's this, noted for its beautiful plumage & harsh call a jay
#7134, aired 2015-09-24	LET'S HAVE EGGS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a nest of eggs on the monitor.) Some birds, like this wild American whiskey symbol, nest on the ground & lay pointed eggs so they roll in a circle, not away from the nest turkeys
#7100, aired 2015-06-26	SAINTS $600: St. Clare of this Italian town was influenced by St. Francis, also from there; she didn't think poverty was for the birds Assisi
#7075, aired 2015-05-22	GREEN BOOKS $2000: Frank Chapman's 1895 "Handbook of" these critters "of Eastern North America" is a must-have for any naturalist birds
#7060, aired 2015-05-01	NICE ENDING, SHAKESPEARE! $2000: Lucius: "As for that ravenous tiger, Tamora... Her life was beastly... And being dead, let birds on her take pity" Titus Andronicus
#7058, aired 2015-04-29	"VO"CABULARY $800: Originally applied to birds, it refers to something that flits about or changes rapidly, like some stock markets volatile
#7054, aired 2015-04-23	BOLIVIA YOU ME $2000: On Bolivia's coat of arms, one of these large birds perches atop an Incan shield an Andean Condor
#7046, aired 2015-04-13	EASTER ISLAND $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds a tern
#7026, aired 2015-03-16	GETTING HITCH-ED $400: Early on, a seagull pecks at Melanie's head in this Hitchcock film; things go downhill from there The Birds
#7014, aired 2015-02-26	AVIAN GLOSSARY $400: Drop the "S" from the end of a Southern dish to get this substance that helps pet birds' digestive process grit
#7014, aired 2015-02-26	AVIAN GLOSSARY $800: Birds can be categorized by how much they wander as either sedentary or this word that also ends in "ry" migratory
#7014, aired 2015-02-26	ROMANIAN HOLIDAY $1000: Bring binoculars; 300 species of birds live in this river's delta on the Black Sea the Danube
#7012, aired 2015-02-24	"I" LOVE SCIENCE $400: This process is used by birds to warm their eggs incubation
#7006, aired 2015-02-16	DOUBLE-LETTER SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): In birds it's also known as the gastric mill the gizzard
#7004, aired 2015-02-12	1990s FICTION $800: You could say this John Grisham novel featuring Tulane law student Darby Shaw was for the birds The Pelican Brief
#7003, aired 2015-02-11	SCULPTURE $2000: This Romanian-born sculptor created 27 works featuring birds, including 16 versions of "Bird in Space" Constantin Brâncuși
#6998, aired 2015-02-04	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: I found this graceful bird in Botswana swan (in Botswana)
#6998, aired 2015-02-04	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: In Europe this bird may sit beside a babbling brook rook (in brook)
#6998, aired 2015-02-04	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: Regrettably, it was once hunted to near extinction egret (in Regrettably)
#6998, aired 2015-02-04	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: I saw this bird in my backyard in Andover dove (in Andover)
#6998, aired 2015-02-04	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: The Percheron is a large horse; this is a large bird heron (in Percheron)
#6992, aired 2015-01-27	COLLECTIBLES $1600: In 2010 a first edition of his "Birds of America" with hand-colored illustrations sold for over $10 million Audubon
#6990, aired 2015-01-23	FINNISH HIM! $400: Niklas Hed, Kim Dikert & Jarno Vakevainen founded Rovio, best known for this game series Angry Birds
#6973, aired 2014-12-31	BIBLICAL ZOO $800: Once every 3 years King Solomon imported apes & these "proud" birds from Tharshish peacocks
#6968, aired 2014-12-24	TURTLES $1,800 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a tiny new friend at the Turtle Conservancy.) Like newborn birds, a turtle or tortoise that recently emerged from its egg is called this a hatchling
#6964, aired 2014-12-18	THAT WAS ON TV $2000: Some thought this Jane Wyman & Lorenzo Lamas show about running a winery was for the birds Falcon Crest
#6955, aired 2014-12-05	HI, TECH! $200: "Bad Piggies" & "Seasons" are offshoots of this Rovio game app Angry Birds
#6947, aired 2014-11-25	BEFORE & AFTER $800: Mao's 1934 walkabout goes Hollywood as a film about waddling birds the Long March of the Penguins
#6945, aired 2014-11-21	GETTING POSSESSIVE $1600: Term for the 14 related species of birds from the Galapagos that helped spur evolutionary theory Darwin's finches
#6942, aired 2014-11-18	A LOAD OF ODIN $800: Hugin & Munin were a pair of these crow-like birds that Odin used to scout ahead & bring him news ravens
#6924, aired 2014-10-23	3 "T"s $400: Its name literally means "a short burst of inconsequential information" & "chirps from birds" #FYI Twitter
#6883, aired 2014-07-16	HIS LAST NFL TEAM $400: Emmitt Smith ended up being for the birds & this desert-dwelling team the Cardinals
#6881, aired 2014-07-14	SHAKESPEARE'S ENDINGS $2000: "As for that ravenous tiger Tamora... being dead, let birds on her take pity" Titus Andronicus
#6878, aired 2014-07-09	ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $400: The business sense of this naturalist & painter was for the birds; he was jailed for debt in 1819 (John James) Audubon
#6877, aired 2014-07-08	OH, LOOK AT THE TIME $800: The first birds "park"ed themselves about 150 million years ago in this period the Jurassic
#6877, aired 2014-07-08	LITERARY CLERGYMEN $1200: In this Colleen McCullough novel, Meggie Cleary & parish priest Ralph de Bricassart fall in love The Thorn Birds
#6872, aired 2014-07-01	BEASTLY VOCABULARY $2000: A snood is the fleshy appendage hanging above the beak of one of these birds a turkey
#6864, aired 2014-06-19	QUIRKY NEWS $600: Parishioners in Frederick, Maryland were attacked by these--the birds, not the bourbon brand wild turkeys
#6862, aired 2014-06-17	RETURNS $600: Traditionally these birds have returned to California's Mission San Juan Capistrano on March 19 swallows
#6857, aired 2014-06-10	THE "OWL" $1000: A person who hunts wild birds for food a fowler
#6856, aired 2014-06-09	GLANDS & ORGANS $1200: Birds have 2 chambers in this internal organ, including the gizzard the stomach
#6843, aired 2014-05-21	THAT USED TO BE A THING $800: "A Feathered River Across the Sky" is a 2014 book about this creature that once made up over 1/4 of North America's birds the passenger pigeon
#6839, aired 2014-05-15	OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: Some small beach birds are called peeps instead of these "pipers" sandpipers
#6832, aired 2014-05-06	FEATURING FLAGS $2000: A black one of these birds is featured on the flag of Western Australia a swan
#6827, aired 2014-04-29	AMERICANA $400: These kitschy front yard birds have their own "scientific" name, Phoenicopteris ruber plasticus pink flamingos
#6795, aired 2014-03-14	BASEBALL TEAMS $400: In 2013 this team added a new jersey, putting the name of the city, not the team, under 2 red birds perched on a bat the St. Louis Cardinals
#6793, aired 2014-03-12	SO SAD $200: In a 1984 Prince song, things were so sad that these title birds were crying doves
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	STATE BIRDS $400: New Mexico's state bird is this desert dweller the roadrunner
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	STATE BIRDS $800: This state bird of Maryland is black & orange the Baltimore oriole
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	STATE BIRDS $1200: Texas adopted this mimic as its state bird in 1927; Tennessee mimicked the pick in 1933 a mockingbird
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	STATE BIRDS $1600: The Eastern brown pelican is this state's bird Louisiana
#6784, aired 2014-02-27	STATE BIRDS $2000: Both Montana & Nebraska have the western type of this bird meadowlark
#6781, aired 2014-02-24	GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $200: When these birds get together, they're in a company or pandemonium; Polly wanna party! parrots
#6781, aired 2014-02-24	GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $800: Nevermore will you be unaware that a group of these birds is known as an unkindness a raven
#6778, aired 2014-02-19	SCIENCE IN THE WORLD $1600: An eco-issue is protection of creatures that act as these for plants--honeybees of course, but also beetles & birds pollinators
#6758, aired 2014-01-22	LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE $600: Kitty's ears perk up when she hears the title of this Daphne du Maurier tale of fierce finches & robins "The Birds"
#6748, aired 2014-01-08	LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $600: It's a flock of these birds in motion--they're like little stars of the sky starlings
#6732, aired 2013-12-17	O CHRISTMAS TREE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) Often made with adhesive, cellulose & fire retardant, the artificial snow found on some trees is called this, also a term for what a bunch of birds do when coming together flock
#6718, aired 2013-11-27	ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) The bald eagle has made a remarkable recovery from the ravages of this now-banned pesticide, which caused affected birds to lay thin-shelled eggs, producing fewer young DDT
#6709, aired 2013-11-14	PLANT SCIENCE $400: Ornithophily is pollination by these birds
#6703, aired 2013-11-06	GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT $800: Tippecanoe was an 1811 battle; she starred in "Marnie" & "The Birds" Tippi Hedren
#6691, aired 2013-10-21	WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $1,000 (Daily Double): This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds a hedgehog
#6671, aired 2013-09-23	BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $600 (Daily Double): In 1886 a loft for this type of bird was built at Sandringham House; birds from the loft later saw service in WWII a carrier pigeon
#6656, aired 2013-07-22	ANIMAL GROUPS $400: A stand of these pink wading birds can also be called a flamboyance flamingoes
#6656, aired 2013-07-22	ANIMAL GROUPS $800: Joe Walsh said these birds' goal after trashing hotel rooms was to cross the state line before a maid opened the door The Eagles
#6653, aired 2013-07-17	VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) A popular scene symbolizing love & fidelity features a male & female one of these mythical birds, known in Western myth to rise from ashes a phoenix
#6628, aired 2013-06-12	EGRETS ONLY $800: Aigrettes, these parts of egrets, were so popular over 100 years ago, demand for them almost wiped the birds out feathers
#6598, aired 2013-05-01	"C" BIRDS $400: Its 2-note call gave it its name & inspired a type of clock the cuckoo
#6598, aired 2013-05-01	"C" BIRDS $800: The northern species of this North American bird is known for red plumage, a crest & whistling year-round a cardinal
#6598, aired 2013-05-01	"C" BIRDS $1200: (Alex reports from atop a ship in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.) It is said that early sailors would release these birds from a high perch aboard a sailing vessel in hopes that the birds would lead the ship to land a crow
#6598, aired 2013-05-01	"C" BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): One story has it that this duck got its name from being shipped in sacks with labels asking that the sack be returned a canvasback
#6598, aired 2013-05-01	"C" BIRDS $2000: The catbird has a meow-like song; this bird hangs around cattle to feed on insects they stir up a cowbird
#6586, aired 2013-04-15	ENDS WITH "Y" $800: A small flock of birds, especially partridge or quail a covey
#6560, aired 2013-03-08	BIOLOGY $400: It should take just a wink to tell us a nictitating membrane is a third one of these found in birds an eyelid
#6559, aired 2013-03-07	LETTERS & WORDS $600: From Quechua, it's the word for bats' or birds' droppings guano
#6557, aired 2013-03-05	STARTS WITH A PIECE OF CLOTHING $1200: A place where the eggs of fish or birds are cultivated a hatchery
#6550, aired 2013-02-22	AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS $200: His award in 1979 wasn't just for "The Birds" but for all those other great films he directed Hitchcock
#6545, aired 2013-02-15	NATURAL SYMBOLS $1600: This bird is regarded as a symbol of jealousy, as it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds the cuckoo
#6523, aired 2013-01-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: It's a symbol of wisdom & knowledge an owl (in knowledge)
#6523, aired 2013-01-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: If you've been humiliated into eating this bird, don't microwave it crow (in microwave)
#6523, aired 2013-01-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: You'll find this old bird scooting along a marsh a coot (in scooting)
#6523, aired 2013-01-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: This ill bird had to be treated intravenously a raven (in intravenously)
#6523, aired 2013-01-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: This afternoon, I saw this sea bird a tern (in afternoon)
#6504, aired 2012-12-20	BEASTLY ART $800: In the 1290s, Giotto depicted this religious figure preaching to the birds Francis of Assisi
#6502, aired 2012-12-18	LOVE $600: A song by this composer says, "Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love" Cole Porter
#6493, aired 2012-12-05	WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $1200: Sticky stuff to catch birds was once made from mistletoe, viscum in Latin; hence this adjective viscous
#6492, aired 2012-12-04	WORLD AUTHORS $800: This "Thorn Birds" author established the department of neurophysiology at a hospital in Sydney, Australia Colleen McCullough
#6490, aired 2012-11-30	TURN UP THE HEAT $1000: Rising updrafts of warm air; birds ride them to stay aloft while expending less energy thermals
#6489, aired 2012-11-29	NATURE BOY $1,500 (Daily Double): The yellow-rumped warbler is also known as this artist's warbler Audubon
#6484, aired 2012-11-22	SONG BIRDS $200: Prince sang, "This is what it sounds like when" this happens "When Doves Cry"
#6484, aired 2012-11-22	SONG BIRDS $400: Bobby Day & later Michael Jackson sang about a bevy of birds, but the title is "rockin"' this one robin
#6484, aired 2012-11-22	SONG BIRDS $600: Rick Dees & his cast of idiots quacked up listeners with this "disco" fowl a duck
#6484, aired 2012-11-22	SONG BIRDS $800: In 1977 Steve Miller was in the top 10 with "Jet Airliner" & this other song about soaring "Fly Like An Eagle"
#6484, aired 2012-11-22	SONG BIRDS $1000: Louis Jordan headed out to the barnyard for "ain't nobody here but us" these birds chickens
#6479, aired 2012-11-15	CROSSWORD CLUES "A" $1000: This place is for the birds (6) aviary
#6471, aired 2012-11-05	AROUND THE FOREST $600: Birds & these creatures, which include flying foxes, are agents of pollination in tropical forests bats
#6463, aired 2012-10-24	BEASTLY COLLECTIVES $400: As well as a cast of thousands, you can have a cast of these birds of prey, like the kestrel or the peregrine falcons
#6457, aired 2012-10-16	POP CULTURE MUSINGS $800: With lyrics like "There were plants & birds & rocks & things" & "The heat was hot", how did this song by America hit No. 1? "A Horse With No Name"
#6426, aired 2012-07-23	CRAZY TALK $800: A synonym for crazy, this bird isn't crazy--it lays eggs in the nests of other birds who then raise its young cuckoo
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	McWRITERS $400: This author of "The Thorn Birds" lives on remote Norfolk Island in the Pacific with her husband (Colleen) McCullough
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: Indian black, Golden, Bald eagles
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: Barn, Snowy, Great horned owls
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Bee, Anna's, Blue-throated hummingbirds
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2000: Ruddy, Mandarin, Muscovy ducks
#6425, aired 2012-07-20	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2,200 (Daily Double): Little spotted, North Island brown, South Island brown kiwis
#6420, aired 2012-07-13	AGATHA CHRISTIE BOOKS $1000: "Cat Among" these birds the pigeon
#6419, aired 2012-07-12	30 ROCK $1000: He was "Bourne" to guest as Carol, a pilot who--unlike Sully--doesn't "hit birds. Where's my ticket to the Grammys?" Matt Damon
#6412, aired 2012-07-03	ANGRY BIRDS $400: The Protection Act of 1940 for this bird says you best not mess with me, Mac! I'm only the symbol of our country! the bald eagle
#6412, aired 2012-07-03	ANGRY BIRDS $800: Yes, I can fly! But as a Chaparral Cock, aka this bird, I prefer the ground! & no, I won't say "beep beep" for you! a roadrunner
#6412, aired 2012-07-03	ANGRY BIRDS $1200: Yeah, I'm the redheaded species of this bird. Oh, I damaged your lovely wooden home with my beak? Hmm, do I care? No the woodpecker
#6412, aired 2012-07-03	ANGRY BIRDS $1600: As a northern type of this bird, I've been known to imitate songs of 32 different birds in 10 mins., but I do not do requests! a mockingbird
#6412, aired 2012-07-03	ANGRY BIRDS $2000: I'm just goin' out with my covey, Ma! As Montezumas, I know we're a small variety of this bird, but I'll be ok! Gosh! a quail
#6406, aired 2012-06-25	MINE $800: These birds are sensitive to methane & carbon monoxide, which explains their use in a coal-mining phrase a canary
#6395, aired 2012-06-08	POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM $2000: "That is no country for old men. The young in one another's arms, birds in the trees" William Butler Yeats
#6381, aired 2012-05-21	WEBCAMS $400: In April of 2011, people set their browsers to watch these baby birds hatch in Decorah, Iowa bald eagles
#6362, aired 2012-04-24	WE'RE AN AMERICAN BAND $800: We're Natalie, Martie & Emily, 3 Southern birds with several Grammys & a 2011 live "Storytellers" DVD The Dixie Chicks
#6360, aired 2012-04-20	ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $200: Birds do it & so do Twitter users tweet
#6353, aired 2012-04-11	BASIC BLACK $400: 2 of these large black birds were Odin's messengers ravens
#6341, aired 2012-03-26	FAMOUS MENUS $1600: In 1906 this San Francisco hotel fed the birds--to the customers, that is; chicken & squab were on the menu the St. Francis Hotel
#6335, aired 2012-03-16	FROM JOCK TO POLITICIAN $800: Future congressman Steve Largent was for the birds as a member of this NFL team from 1976 to 1989 the Seattle Seahawks
#6326, aired 2012-03-05	NEW TO THE OED $1200: It's a coming together of 3 words & 3 birds, served by some on Thanksgiving turducken
#6319, aired 2012-02-23	TOYS & GAMES $600: A board game based on this bestselling phone app includes 3 green pigs & a slingshot-style launcher Angry Birds
#6314, aired 2012-02-16	CENTRAL AMERICAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Gulf of Panama in Panama.) Allowing them to stay in the sky for long stretches, frigate birds, in proportion to weight, have the longest of these tip-to-tip dimensions of any bird in the world wingspan
#6309, aired 2012-02-09	IT'S THE LAW! $200: No feeding these birds in Venice, even the carrier type; a $600 ticket can fly your way pigeons
#6308, aired 2012-02-08	SILENT B $800: Birds ate Hansel & Gretel's trail of these, so they weren't able to find their way home crumbs
#6298, aired 2012-01-25	BIRD BOOKS $800: Maya Angelou dedicated this book to "all the strong black birds of promise who defy the odds... and sing their songs" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
#6269, aired 2011-12-15	THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $400: Take these broken wings & learn to fly, you Turdus merula, aka this colorful bird blackbird
#6269, aired 2011-12-15	THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $800: This kingfisher that shares its name with an "iron chancellor" lives in New Guinea, not Germany Bismarck (kingfisher)
#6269, aired 2011-12-15	THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $1200: It's britspeak for a type of parakeet a budgie
#6269, aired 2011-12-15	THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $1600: This tropical seabird was named for its supposed lack of intelligence; not afraid of humans, it was easily killed the boobie
#6269, aired 2011-12-15	THE BIRDS & THE "B"s $2000: Buteo buteo is the common species of this large, slow-moving bird of prey the buzzard
#6261, aired 2011-12-05	PHRASES OF DEATH $200: Completing 2 tasks with one action is "killing 2" of these "with one stone" birds
#6260, aired 2011-12-02	YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $800: Quoth the Bible, Noah released 2 birds from the Ark to test for dry land, a dove & one of these a raven
#6243, aired 2011-11-09	WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS $400: Snowple the weasel was replaced for the Nagano Games by 4 of these wise birds owls
#6242, aired 2011-11-08	OOO, SORRY $1600: I'm afraid the Canary Islands weren't named for birds but for these dogs
#6237, aired 2011-11-01	BALLET IT ON THICK $1,200 (Daily Double): Prince Siegfried finds romance is for the birds (like Odette) in this 19th century ballet Swan Lake
#6234, aired 2011-10-27	FILL IN THE ANIMAL $200: A game from Rovio: Angry ____ Birds
#6226, aired 2011-10-17	THE Is HAVE IT $800: Floor-wax heiress Imogene Powers Johnson has a center for birds named for her at this Ithaca, N.Y. Ivy League school Cornell
#6189, aired 2011-07-07	ANIMATION NATION $1200: "Cute & cuddly, boys!" this animated series set at the Central Park zoo is for the birds The Penguins of Madagascar
#6188, aired 2011-07-06	WHAT WILL YOU BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? $200: After I hatch from my egg I'll keep growing and growing until I'm a mature seven foot tall one of these birds an ostrich
#6183, aired 2011-06-29	TO EVERYTHING $800: In a Monty Python skit, a Norwegian blue one of these birds has ceased to be & joined the choir invisible a parrot
#6171, aired 2011-06-13	THAT'S LIFE SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bird on the monitor.) A bird's wing is composed of bones similar to our arm; & like us, birds have two bones between their elbow & wrist with these names the ulna & the radius
#6168, aired 2011-06-08	FOR THE BIRDS $200: On his fifth voyage this mythological sailor's ship is destroyed by giant birds known as rocs Sinbad (the Sailor)
#6168, aired 2011-06-08	FOR THE BIRDS $400: The colorful keel-billed type of this bird really fits the bill a toucan
#6168, aired 2011-06-08	FOR THE BIRDS $600: A South Carolina museum is devoted to this "wild" bird, one of the few breeds of poultry native to the Americas a turkey
#6168, aired 2011-06-08	FOR THE BIRDS $800: Smile for this birdie whose name is also a shade of yellow a canary
#6168, aired 2011-06-08	FOR THE BIRDS $1000: The gooney bird is another name for this bird made famous in a 1798 poem an albatross
#6152, aired 2011-05-17	WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS $600: In 1946 Bugsy Siegel opened this future Hilton adorned with a big pink neon sign & replicas of wading birds The Flamingo
#6151, aired 2011-05-16	DOUBLE E, DOUBLE O $800: Flying targets simulate the flight of game birds in this 2-word activity; pull! skeet shooting
#6138, aired 2011-04-27	BIZ "B"s $400: This brand of frozen veggies uses the logo seen here Birds Eye
#6119, aired 2011-03-31	WHO CARES? $800: The Environmental Defense Fund, which began with an effort to save this class of creatures from DDT birds
#6105, aired 2011-03-11	RENT $1000: In the 16th century the knights of Malta paid Holy Roman Emperor Charles V an annual rent of one of these birds Maltese falcon
#6093, aired 2011-02-23	QUICK LIT $600: A Louise Erdrich novel is titled "The Plague of" these birds doves
#6080, aired 2011-02-04	BIRDIE $1000: For his service during WWI, Cher Ami, one of these useful birds, was awarded France's Croix de Guerre a homing pigeon
#6075, aired 2011-01-28	SO SAYETH THE TALK SHOW HOST $200: This "Late Show" guy: "Fall is my favorite season in L.A., watching the birds change color & fall from the trees" David Letterman
#6072, aired 2011-01-25	NICE TO MEAT YOU $200: We give thanks that toms, the males of these birds, can reach 70 lbs. turkeys
#6070, aired 2011-01-21	LOUISIANA LORE $1200: Some 70,000 of these graceful birds, including 15,000 snowy ones, nest at Miller's Lake egrets
#6062, aired 2011-01-11	A SEEDY CATEGORY $1000: You might say the black oil type of these is for the birds, since it's the most popular food used in feeders sunflower seeds
#6054, aired 2010-12-30	BIRD-OLOGY $200: Hands off the hooded pitohui! With wings & skin laced with toxin, it's one of the few birds known to be this poisonous (or venomous)
#6054, aired 2010-12-30	BIRD-OLOGY $400: Like mammals, birds are this; their body temperature always remains about the same warm blooded
#6044, aired 2010-12-16	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: Scientists now believe that birds are descended from the theropods, the "beast foot" family of these dinosaurs
#6044, aired 2010-12-16	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: The big difference between bees & these close relatives is that bees feed their young honey, not other insects wasps
#6044, aired 2010-12-16	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1200: The "giant" type of this bird is an imposing 8 inches long & weighs a colossal 2/3 of an ounce a hummingbird
#6044, aired 2010-12-16	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1600: That's not ladylike! If 2 of these bees emerge from their cells at the same time, they fight to the death the queens
#6044, aired 2010-12-16	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: The food of bee larvae is called royal this; it's secreted from the heads of other bees jelly
#6034, aired 2010-12-02	ASSORTED FLOWERS $800: These fowl from New Guinea with beautiful plumage sound like they should live in the Garden of Eden birds-of-paradise
#6019, aired 2010-11-11	BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $200: Some hawk moths hover just like these tiny birds for which they are sometimes mistaken hummingbirds
#6009, aired 2010-10-28	U.S. ISLANDS $1200: (CNN senior U.N. Correspondent Richard Roth gives the clue.) Today a sanctuary for migrating birds, the island you see just offshore from the U.N. bears the name of this Burmese U.N. Secretary-General U Thant
#6003, aired 2010-10-20	WE'RE CUCKOO $200: Unlike most birds, cuckoos have 2 of these pointing forward & 2 pointing backwards, if you "grasp" the clue talons (or toes)
#6000, aired 2010-10-15	ZOOS $800: A highlight of the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland is the afternoon parade of these black & white birds penguins
#5985, aired 2010-09-24	IT'S A BIRD! $1600: Found in Kenya, Ruppell's griffons, these birds, can devour an antelope within 20 minutes vultures
#5985, aired 2010-09-24	IT'S A BIRD! $2000: Also known as mimic-thrushes, these birds are thought to be closely related to wrens (& thrushes, obviously) a mockingbird
#5977, aired 2010-09-14	KATIE COURIC, WITNESS TO HISTORY $400: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) On "60 Minutes" in 2009 I conducted the first interview with this pilot, who vividly described "birds filling the entire windscreen" Sullenberger
#5974, aired 2010-07-29	OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST $600: The brown one of these pouched birds is being delisted as it has bounced back from DDT devastation the pelican
#5972, aired 2010-07-27	DOUBLE TALK $800: Oxford lays claim to a head & a foot of one of these extinct birds the dodo
#5968, aired 2010-07-21	WHATEVER $400: Unlike most birds, which have 4, ostriches have this many toes on each foot, adapted to aid in running 2
#5965, aired 2010-07-16	WATERCOLORS $400: One of his "Birds of America" is seen here Audubon
#5960, aired 2010-07-09	PREFIXES $2000: An -ologist who specifically studies birds gets this Greek prefix before his or her name ornith- (or ornitho-)
#5951, aired 2010-06-28	I'M AUSTRALIAN $2,000 (Daily Double): Colleen McCullough wrote this 1977 novel about generations of sheep ranchers The Thorn Birds
#5937, aired 2010-06-08	FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD $200: Usually roasted, squab is a young one of these birds a pigeon
#5936, aired 2010-06-07	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: This flightless bird of Africa uses its wings as rudders to help it change direction while running the ostrich
#5936, aired 2010-06-07	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: A rail found on Inaccessible Island near Tristan da Cunha in this ocean is the smallest living flightless bird the Atlantic Ocean
#5936, aired 2010-06-07	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1200: A grebe named for this lake is endangered because it's often caught in nets by Peruvian & Bolivian fishermen Lake Titicaca
#5936, aired 2010-06-07	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1600: The rudimentary wings of this national bird of Australia are useless for flying, but it is an excellent swimmer the emu
#5936, aired 2010-06-07	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $2000: Now endangered, New Zealand's kakapo is the only flightless & nocturnal species of this bird in the family Psittacidae the parrot
#5917, aired 2010-05-11	HITCHCOCK MOVIE QUOTES $400: "Have you ever seen so many gulls? What do you suppose it is?" The Birds
#5907, aired 2010-04-27	BIRD "R"s $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows three different kinds of bird feet on the monitor.) There's a diversity of form & function in bird feet; whether for perching, for grasping or for defense, like the talons on these--a term for birds of prey a raptor
#5903, aired 2010-04-21	EDIBLES INSTANT REPLAY REVIEW $1600: We rule this fish seen here to be a catch, not a roost for birds--& also delicious a perch
#5877, aired 2010-03-16	WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE $200: In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia South America
#5874, aired 2010-03-11	THE NFL $3,600 (Daily Double): When a team switched cities in 1988, this new full team name contained 2 birds, one real & one mythic the Phoenix Cardinals
#5870, aired 2010-03-05	OPERA $2000: This Johann Strauss opera has appeared in several English versions, including "Night Birds" & "Rosalinda" Die Fledermaus
#5865, aired 2010-02-26	THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: Passerines are perching types of these animals birds
#5864, aired 2010-02-25	BLACK BIRD $400: One of the world's largest birds, this California avian can glide as far as 10 miles without beating its wings a condor
#5832, aired 2010-01-12	OBSCURE JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Call your friends: January 20 is national awareness day for these Antarctic birds penguins
#5829, aired 2010-01-07	YOU'LL NEED "ONE" $600: Proverbially, to double your efficiency is to kill 2 birds with this one stone
#5816, aired 2009-12-21	THEY WERE CONTEMPORARIES $400: Madame Tussaud immortalized people in wax while this man created immortal images of the "Birds of America" Audubon
#5813, aired 2009-12-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: So this crazy bird wandered into a saloon... a loon
#5813, aired 2009-12-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: Looks like the beagle ate this bird an eagle
#5813, aired 2009-12-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: It has a long femur an emu
#5813, aired 2009-12-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: It's hiding in the hibiscus an ibis
#5813, aired 2009-12-16	BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: You'll find this bird in Milwaukee auk
#5802, aired 2009-12-01	POLAR OBSESSION $2000: (Paul Nicklen presents the clue.) Cliff-nesting birds, like the thousands seen here, play an important part in Arctic ecology; their guano falls before the icy water's surface to provide nutrients to these flowery invertebrates sea anemones
#5798, aired 2009-11-25	FOR THE BIRDS $400: St. Hugh of Lincoln was famous for having one of these graceful birds as a pet a swan
#5798, aired 2009-11-25	FOR THE BIRDS $800: It's the songbird & finch family member seen here a cardinal
#5798, aired 2009-11-25	FOR THE BIRDS $1200: Seen here is one of these birds that, for a time, had a TV "Family" the partridge
#5798, aired 2009-11-25	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: The common fowl seen here is this state bird a Rhode Island Red
#5798, aired 2009-11-25	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: 100 of these European birds were released in Central Park in 1890; today, there are 200 million in North America starlings
#5794, aired 2009-11-19	LET'S MAKE A WISH $1200: Make a wish when you see 8 magpies, 3 birds on a wire or the first one of these birds in the spring a robin
#5786, aired 2009-11-09	THE SCIENCE OF AUTUMN $1200: The migratory formation of the waterfowl named for this nation gives the trailing birds easier flying Canada (Canadian geese accepted)
#5771, aired 2009-10-19	A GIFT FROM THE MONARCH $400: For Canada's centennial, Elizabeth II gave Ottawa 6 pairs of these birds, a-swimming on the Rideau River swans
#5714, aired 2009-06-11	THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $1600: The Hugo-winning Kate Wilhelm novel "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" gets its title from this man's Sonnet No. 73 William Shakespeare
#5690, aired 2009-05-08	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE $1000: A flock of these black birds is called a murder crows
#5678, aired 2009-04-22	IN BRUGES $800: Tradition says as punishment for killing a noble, Bruges must forever keep these long-necked birds in its canals swans
#5674, aired 2009-04-16	THE NATURE OF THE BEAST $400: From its main diet of rodents & birds, you might guess a serval is a type of this animal a (wild) cat
#5674, aired 2009-04-16	GIVE ME SOME DIRECTION $9,200 (Daily Double): Birds use these, also called thermal columns, to soar higher in a circular pattern updrafts
#5671, aired 2009-04-13	AFRICAN ANIMALS $2000: Certain birds of Africa are called these for the way they intertwine materials to make nests like the one seen here weaverbirds
#5662, aired 2009-03-31	TRICKY STUPID ANSWERS $600: A line from this book: "Spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, & the early mornings are strangely silent" Silent Spring
#5661, aired 2009-03-30	PERSONAL FOWLS $600: Birds seen in this engraving are based on a painting by this naturalist (John James) Audubon
#5657, aired 2009-03-24	THINK YOU KNOW BASEBALL? $1200: The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles; these N.L. birds are a distant second, with 10 the Cardinals
#5654, aired 2009-03-19	ADD AN ELEMENTAL SYMBOL $400: Add the 1-letter symbol for this element to "stor" or "lar" & you get birds potassium
#5650, aired 2009-03-13	GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $400: His 1380s poem "The Parlement of Foules" isn't about idiots in government; it's about birds choosing mates Geoffrey Chaucer
#5643, aired 2009-03-04	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: Rock, turtle, mourning a dove
#5643, aired 2009-03-04	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $800: Red-headed, ivory-billed, yellow-bellied sapsucker a woodpecker
#5643, aired 2009-03-04	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1200: Amazon, African gray, lory parrot
#5643, aired 2009-03-04	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $1600: Blue, wattled, sandhill crane
#5643, aired 2009-03-04	BIRDS OF A FEATHER $2000: Macaroni, Fjordland, Adelie penguins
#5639, aired 2009-02-26	PROVERB VS. PROVERB $5,000 (Daily Double): Wait a minute--"opposites attract", but these "flock together"? Huh? birds of a feather
#5635, aired 2009-02-20	HUD $400: HUD's seal combines high-rise buildings for urban with one of these birds symbolizing federal authority an eagle
#5618, aired 2009-01-28	FOLKLORE $10,000 (Daily Double): In Native American culture, these mythical birds flashed lightning from their eyes & caused storms with their wings thunderbirds
#5594, aired 2008-12-25	"C" CREATURES $800: Insects are their main diet, but larger types of this colorful Old World lizard also eat birds; rough "karma" a chameleon
#5592, aired 2008-12-23	HYBRIDS $1,000 (Daily Double): These monsters with birds' bodies & women's faces got a nasty rep for snatching children & souls harpies
#5592, aired 2008-12-23	"P"ICK THIS CATEGORY! $1000: 7-letter adjective meaning multicolored, like some horses or birds piebald
#5591, aired 2008-12-22	I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW $2000: Martha & 2 males, the last of these birds, had time alone at the Cincy zoo; too bad they didn't make the most of it the passenger pigeon
#5587, aired 2008-12-16	DINOSAURS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) No one knows the purpose, but like modern birds, the stegosaurus has a small hole in its skull called a fenestra, from the Latin for this window
#5584, aired 2008-12-11	NURSERY RHYME TIME $200: Quite contrary gardener's yellow birds Mary's canaries
#5580, aired 2008-12-05	ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $200: Lions don't like to attack ostriches because the big birds do this & can even kill the king of beasts this way kick
#5575, aired 2008-11-28	1983: THE YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT $1000: Barbara Stanwyck won an Emmy for playing Meggie's manipulative & wealthy aunt in this TV miniseries The Thorn Birds
#5563, aired 2008-11-12	GIRL SCOUT BADGES $200: Feather your nest earning the Girl Scout badge "All About" these creatures Birds
#5547, aired 2008-10-21	HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: Members of the class Aves The Birds
#5522, aired 2008-09-16	LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: In the Grimm tale "Jorinda and Joringel", Jorinda is turned into one of these birds known for singing in the evening a nightingale
#5509, aired 2008-07-17	POETIC BIRDS $400: Coleridge: "The ___ did follow,/ And every day for food or play,/ Came to the mariners' hollo!" albatross
#5509, aired 2008-07-17	POETIC BIRDS $800: Keats' "Ode to ___": "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" a nightingale
#5509, aired 2008-07-17	POETIC BIRDS $1200: Wallace Stevens (I of XIII): "Among twenty snowy mountains/ The only moving thing/ Was the eye of a ___" blackbird
#5509, aired 2008-07-17	POETIC BIRDS $1600: Whitman: "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking/ Out of the ___'s throat, the musical shuttle" mockingbird
#5509, aired 2008-07-17	POETIC BIRDS $2,500 (Daily Double): Shakespeare: "Love and constancy is dead;/___ and the turtle fled/ In a mutual flame from hence" Phoenix
#5505, aired 2008-07-11	MINDBLOWERS $800: There are about 4,000 species of mammals, 8,700 species of birds & 1 million known species of these creatures insects
#5489, aired 2008-06-19	AFRICAN ANIMALS $400: The only birds taller than this 8-foot African bird were the now-extinct moas ostriches
#5489, aired 2008-06-19	AFRICAN ANIMALS $800: Most of these flightless birds live near Antarctica, but the jackass species is found off South Africa penguins
#5487, aired 2008-06-17	MORE NASAL PASSAGES $400: The poem "Sing a Song of Sixpence" says, "Along came" one of these birds, "and snipped off her nose" blackbird
#5470, aired 2008-05-23	THE BIRDS $400: This bird that isn't really losing its hair is a national symbol of the U.S. the bald eagle
#5470, aired 2008-05-23	THE BIRDS $800: Herring & laughing are 2 species of this "sea" bird a gull
#5470, aired 2008-05-23	THE BIRDS $1200: If you're a C. corax, this bird, you may be given to gloomy pronouncements like the one in Poe a raven
#5470, aired 2008-05-23	THE BIRDS $1600: It's the thick-walled muscular pouch that grinds food in a bird's lower stomach a gizzard
#5470, aired 2008-05-23	THE BIRDS $2000: The colorful lovebird, with a curved beak & short tail, is a member of this bird family a parrot
#5468, aired 2008-05-21	POTPOURRI $600: Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they'll use it in their nests lint
#5464, aired 2008-05-15	HOMECOMING $400: Scouts precede the main flock of these birds in their annual arrival at San Juan Capistrano swallows
#5459, aired 2008-05-08	SHEER LUNAR SEA! $800: The "Sea of" this sweet plant secretion that attracts insects & birds nectar
#5457, aired 2008-05-06	LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $2000: Julian Huxley made the Oscar-winning 1934 film "The Private Life of the Gannets", which are these creatures sea birds
#5451, aired 2008-04-28	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400: It's often atop a statue: ONE PIG a pigeon
#5451, aired 2008-04-28	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $800: It's big in Africa (heck, it's big everywhere): CHRISTO an ostrich
#5451, aired 2008-04-28	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1200: He'll send you a large bill: CAP LINE pelican
#5451, aired 2008-04-28	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1600: I may gulp when I say its name: LOW LAWS a swallow
#5451, aired 2008-04-28	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $2000: It's probably long-tailed: HEAT SNAP pheasant
#5445, aired 2008-04-18	I'M AN ANIMAL $800: A baboon's diet can include rodents, birds & even fawns of this "g"raceful small antelope a gazelle
#5434, aired 2008-04-03	WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO IS DIRECT $400: He designed titles for silent films before he made us scream over birds & psychos Alfred Hitchcock
#5422, aired 2008-03-18	THERE'S "AU" $2000: The puffin is a member of this "great" family of penguin-like birds auks
#5420, aired 2008-03-14	A SCHOOL OF DAUPHINS $1600: Some relatives of this "Birds of America" naturalist claimed he was the Lost Dauphin of France Audubon
#5412, aired 2008-03-04	"C" BIRDS $200: Domesticated varieties of this Old World finch are usually bright or pale yellow a canary
#5412, aired 2008-03-04	"C" BIRDS $400: The ani is a species of this "crazy" bird a cuckoo
#5412, aired 2008-03-04	"C" BIRDS $600: Because this black bird eats a wide range of agricultural crops, it isn't popular with farmers a crow
#5412, aired 2008-03-04	"C" BIRDS $800: With a 9-1/2 foot wingspan, this largest land bird in North America can be seen soaring over the Grand Canyon a condor
#5412, aired 2008-03-04	"C" BIRDS $1000: The sandhill, seen here, is the most abundant species of this bird a crane
#5398, aired 2008-02-13	IT HAPPENS IN FEBRUARY $1000: Each February, the Audubon Society sponsors the GBBC, the "Great Backyard" count of these animals birds
#5396, aired 2008-02-11	UH-OH, OPERA $400: In the opera "Broken Strings", a soprano plays a fish & a tenor plays one of these proud fan-tailed birds a peacock
#5394, aired 2008-02-07	GIVING YOU THE BIRD $1200: Pochards, perching, stiff-tailed & dabbling are types of these birds ducks
#5378, aired 2008-01-16	BIRD IS THE WORD $400: They're the pro basketball-playing birds of prey in Atlanta the Hawks
#5360, aired 2007-12-21	FOR THE BIRDS $400: This bird's distinctive feature is seen here full of fish a pelican
#5360, aired 2007-12-21	FOR THE BIRDS $800: Ah, to see the first eggs of this bird in spring robins
#5360, aired 2007-12-21	FOR THE BIRDS $1200: You might recognize this little sucker from his colorful belly the yellow-bellied sapsucker
#5360, aired 2007-12-21	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: Name in common to the bird & plant seen here a bird of paradise
#5360, aired 2007-12-21	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: A tilt-rotor aircraft used by the U.S. military bears the name of this fish-eating hawk an osprey
#5352, aired 2007-12-11	BIRDS $200: It's the type of swan heard here a trumpeter swan
#5352, aired 2007-12-11	BIRDS $400: Listen, you white-bellied bustard, I know where you live-- this continent's savanna Africa
#5352, aired 2007-12-11	BIRDS $500 (Daily Double): The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers a stilt
#5352, aired 2007-12-11	BIRDS $600: This bird shown in an illustration is distinguished from the heron by the bustle of feathers over its rump crane
#5352, aired 2007-12-11	BIRDS $800: Perhaps this "thrush", a type of babbler, hangs out at comedy clubs with the same-named hyena laughing thrush
#5331, aired 2007-11-12	FARK.com HEADLINES $200: After one of these "feral" birds was released into a park, "Alcoholics... hunt it down & try to drink it" a wild turkey
#5329, aired 2007-11-08	20th CENTURY COMPOSERS $400: Olivier Messiaen studied these to imitate their sounds in works like "Catalogue d'oiseaux" birds
#5320, aired 2007-10-26	THE GIANTS $200: On one of his "Travels", this literary character meets rats the size of lions & wasps as big as birds Gulliver
#5311, aired 2007-10-15	AUSTRALIAN LIT $400: Meggie Cleary & Father Ralph de Bricassart shared a secret & doomed love in this bestseller set in the Outback The Thorn Birds
#5310, aired 2007-10-12	BIRDS $400: This bird's head endures an impact of up to 1200 gs as it hammers away at trees a woodpecker
#5310, aired 2007-10-12	BIRDS $800: The blue & green "eyes" on this bird's tail feathers are just circular patches of feathers the peacock
#5310, aired 2007-10-12	BIRDS $1200: This "camel bird" now found only in Central & South Africa doesn't really bury its head in the sand when threatened the ostrich
#5299, aired 2007-09-27	BEASTLY NOISES $400: If the species were reversed at Thanksgiving, the birds chowing down on us would be doing a lot of... gobbling
#5281, aired 2007-07-23	NOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE! $800: In 2000 a set of books about these critters "Of America" by John James Audubon sold at auction for $8.8 million birds
#5280, aired 2007-07-20	THE WORLD ALMANAC 2007 $400: "Offbeat News Stories" included a prize given to scientists who explained why these birds don't get headaches woodpeckers
#5266, aired 2007-07-02	NATURE $400: Sandpipers & snipes are shorebirds, also called these for the way they move through shallow water wading birds
#5263, aired 2007-06-27	WHAT'S IN A CELEBRITY NAME? $800: The original name of this star of "The Birds" was Nathalie; her nickname is from "Tupsa", a Swedish endearment Tippi Hedren
#5261, aired 2007-06-25	"TWO" NIGHT $600: Proverbially, it's what you hope to do "with one stone" kill two birds
#5256, aired 2007-06-18	STATE BIRDS $200: The common loon lives on the water, so it's not surprising that it's the state bird of this "Land of 10,000 Lakes" Minnesota
#5256, aired 2007-06-18	STATE BIRDS $400: The male of this state bird of Indiana is one of the few all-red birds in North America the cardinal
#5256, aired 2007-06-18	STATE BIRDS $600: Darwin made a famous study of these birds, but not the purple species, New Hampshire's state bird a finch
#5256, aired 2007-06-18	STATE BIRDS $800: In 1933 the Tennessee Ornithological Society conducted a vote to select a state bird; this mimic barely won a mockingbird
#5256, aired 2007-06-18	STATE BIRDS $1000: Until mating season, this California state bird lives in coveys of up to 200 birds a quail
#5249, aired 2007-06-07	PUBLISHING $1,400 (Daily Double): Puffin & Firebird are young readers imprints of this publisher Penguin
#5249, aired 2007-06-07	ANATOMY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads in front of a skeleton) It's the medical name for these two bones, from the Latin for "key"; in birds, they fuse to form a wishbone clavicle
#5238, aired 2007-05-23	IT'S A BIRD! $400: For the blue-backed manakin, this ritual begins with a duet sung by 2 birds--a dominant male & his wingman a mating ritual
#5237, aired 2007-05-22	DOCUMENTARIES $600: Flightless birds head single file to their traditional breeding ground in this 2005 documentary March of the Penguins
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400: I'd pay to see a hare race this tall South American bird the rhea (for hare)
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $800: This arctic bird should rent a waterfront home tern (for rent)
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1200: I'd like to greet this wading bird with a friendly hello egret (from greet)
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1600: If you're in the lair of this slim bird, don't tell him he's as skinny as... rail (from lair)
#5236, aired 2007-05-21	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $2000: I wonder if I'd see this long-legged bird along the Rhone River heron (from Rhone)
#5230, aired 2007-05-11	INCREDIBLE EDIBLES $800: These birds whose young are called cygnets were a "cygnet"ure dish at medieval banquets swans
#5223, aired 2007-05-02	COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $200: Get out your binoculars: 121 species of these have been spotted on the campus of Bennington birds
#5211, aired 2007-04-16	ARCHITECTURE $400: Berthold Lubetkin's designs for the London Zoo include a gorilla house & a pool for these flightless birds penguins
#5208, aired 2007-04-11	HE WAS IN THE TOP 40? $1200: This "Thorn Birds" star had 3 Top 40s, including the "Theme From Dr. Kildare" (Richard) Chamberlain
#5204, aired 2007-04-05	MIGRATION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports in front of an image of the globe.) These birds may cover 14,000 miles in one migration - their return north in warm water led to the proverb "One of" them "does not make a summer" swallow
#5202, aired 2007-04-03	DIFFERENT STOKES $200: The Stokes series of nature books includes a "Beginner's Guide" to these hovering nectar-eating birds hummingbirds
#5186, aired 2007-03-12	SCIENCE $600: This branch of study is for the birds... actually, it's of the birds ornithology
#5173, aired 2007-02-21	STATE BIRDS $200: Ohio: This redbird a cardinal
#5173, aired 2007-02-21	STATE BIRDS $400: Virginia: This bird, not Albert Pujols the cardinal
#5173, aired 2007-02-21	STATE BIRDS $600: West Virginia: This crested bird the cardinal
#5173, aired 2007-02-21	STATE BIRDS $800: Kentucky: This colorful songbird a cardinal
#5173, aired 2007-02-21	STATE BIRDS $1000: Missouri: Not a redbird but this colorful creature a bluebird
#5172, aired 2007-02-20	COLLEGE SPORTS TEAM NICKNAMES $1200: We hope these colorful birds don't leave their University of Delaware fans feeling "blue" Blue Hens
#5169, aired 2007-02-15	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: Some (maybe the birds themselves) say the African gray type is the most accomplished talker among these birds parrots
#5169, aired 2007-02-15	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Bees help create new species when they move this powder from one type of plant to another pollen
#5169, aired 2007-02-15	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1200: The white type of this forage plant is a prime source of the nectar that bees use to make honey clover
#5169, aired 2007-02-15	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1600: A nuthatch isn't an asylum, it's a bird that loves these nuts also called filberts hazelnuts
#5169, aired 2007-02-15	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: It's a small, chunky brown bird with a short bill & a silent initial W wren
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	BASIC SCIENCE $200: In North America, these tiny birds are the main birds that pollinate flowers hummingbirds
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	FOR THE BIRDS $400: The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird a duck
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	FOR THE BIRDS $800: The genus for this American bird is Turdus; ah, to see the first Turdus of spring a robin
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	FOR THE BIRDS $1200: One of the 2 U.S. states with a bird in its official state nickname (One of) Iowa or Louisiana
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: This long-legged wading bird of the genus Platalea is named for its prominent flatware-like bill the spoonbill
#5153, aired 2007-01-24	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: The Rainbow variety of this parakeet relative is seen here a lorikeet
#5148, aired 2007-01-17	FEAR $400: Help! I've watched too much Hitchcock & developed ornithophobia! The fear of these! birds
#5140, aired 2007-01-05	BYE BYE BIRDIE $1600: Over 5 feet tall, Pachydyptes ponderosus was a prehistoric one of these cold-weather birds a penguin
#5128, aired 2006-12-20	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $200: Ermines & ferrets brought into New Zealand to control rabbits have reduced the numbers of this national bird the kiwi
#5128, aired 2006-12-20	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: This flightless bird of Australia can grow to 100 pounds and 5 feet tall the emu
#5128, aired 2006-12-20	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $600: Care of the young of this large South American bird is the exclusive province of males who incubate the eggs the rhea
#5128, aired 2006-12-20	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: Although this bird was extinct on Mauritius by 1681, one species survived on Rodriguez Island up until about 1800 dodo
#5128, aired 2006-12-20	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1000: This large flightless bird of New Guinea is identifiable by a huge bony helmet, or casque, on its head the cassowary
#5116, aired 2006-12-04	BEASTLY LIT $1600: A mystery by Donna Andrews: "We'll Always Have" these birds Parrots
#5099, aired 2006-11-09	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Seen here is the laughing type of this "sea" bird--sorry, no audio for you seagull
#5095, aired 2006-11-03	AUSSIE $1000: In an Australian saying, when these birds named for their call "call, the rain will fall" the kookaburra
#5093, aired 2006-11-01	OUT WEST $200: The Aransas Wildlife Refuge in Texas is the main winter home for these large noisy birds from Canada whooping cranes
#5085, aired 2006-10-20	10-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): Here's the drill--a sapsucker is one of these birds woodpecker
#5085, aired 2006-10-20	THE NASTY CRITIC REVIEWS THE 19th CENTURY $1200: I'd say this man's "ornithological biography", written from 1831 to 1839, is for the birds Audubon
#5073, aired 2006-10-04	POTPOURRI $800: These "proud" birds also knwn as peafowl like to fly up into trees at night to roost peacocks
#5073, aired 2006-10-04	CLASS FIELD TRIP $1200: A class field trip to an aviary means you're going to an enclosure where these are kept birds
#5070, aired 2006-09-29	"U"-ENDING CREATURES $400: At 6 feet tall & 120 pounds, it looks down on all the other birds except for the ostrich an emu
#5055, aired 2006-07-28	JOHN GRISHAM $400: Tulane law student Darby Shaw uncovers a conspiracy for the birds in this Grisham thriller The Pelican Brief
#5038, aired 2006-07-05	CARE TO SEE MY ETCHINGS? $200: This man worked with Robert Havell on some etchings so that his "Birds of America" could find a publisher (John James) Audubon
#5036, aired 2006-07-03	ZOOLOGY $1200: 3 flightless birds are native to the South Pacific: the kiwi, the cassowary & this one in Ausralia the emu
#5024, aired 2006-06-15	DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION $200: In the Korean hangmu, 2 dancers represent these long-legged birds attracted to lotus flowers cranes
#5020, aired 2006-06-09	CRITTERS OF THE AMAZON $800: The bird spider, a member of this family of hairy spiders, usually eats beetles, but it does eat small birds on occasion tarantula
#4999, aired 2006-05-11	"T" BIRDS $400: Common species of this duck include blue-winged, green-winged & cinnamon the teal
#4999, aired 2006-05-11	"T" BIRDS $800: Toco, the largest species of this colorful bird of the American tropics, may have a 7-inch bill a toucan
#4999, aired 2006-05-11	"T" BIRDS $1200: One species of this bird breeds in the Arctic tundra & "vacations" at the other end of the globe a tern
#4999, aired 2006-05-11	"T" BIRDS $1600: Nightingales & robins belong to this family of melodious songbirds thrushes
#4999, aired 2006-05-11	"T" BIRDS $2000: In North America this term is properly applied to only 4 species that are crested, including the tufted a titmouse
#4995, aired 2006-05-05	CAT $800: Proverbially, to stir up trouble is to put "the cat in among" these urban birds the pigeons
#4989, aired 2006-04-27	DOUBLE TALK $400: The true one of these unfortunate birds had the scientific name Raphus cucullatus a dodo
#4961, aired 2006-03-20	FROZEN FOOD $400: This brand introduced the frozen TV dinner in 1953 Swanson
#4961, aired 2006-03-20	FROZEN FOOD $600: This brand of frozen food is named for Clarence, born in Brooklyn in 1886 Birds Eye
#4961, aired 2006-03-20	FROZEN FOOD $800: "It's not delivery... it's" this frozen pizza brand DiGiorno
#4953, aired 2006-03-08	2005 IG NOBEL PRIZES $400: 2 men won in Fluid Dynamics for "Pressures Produced When" these birds "Pooh", published in Polar Biology penguins
#4938, aired 2006-02-15	BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $400: You may take a "gander" at the Jerome Robbins ballet named for this nursery rhymster Mother Goose
#4938, aired 2006-02-15	BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $800: Sancho Panza gets chased after stealing a bird in a ballet based on this novel Don Quixote
#4938, aired 2006-02-15	BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $1200: The NYCB's 1986 version of this classic ballet had the "cygnet"ure corps of birds dressed in black Swan Lake
#4938, aired 2006-02-15	BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $2000: There's a duck in the ballet based on this composer's "Peter and the Wolf" Prokofiev
#4938, aired 2006-02-15	BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $2,600 (Daily Double): Jemima Puddle-Duck shakes her tail feathers in the delightful ballet called "The Tales of" this woman Beatrix Potter
#4926, aired 2006-01-30	STATE BIRDS $200: This red-feathered friend is the state bird of a record 7 states the cardinal
#4926, aired 2006-01-30	STATE BIRDS $600: 1 of 2 states that have a breed of chicken as the state bird Rhode Island (or Delaware)
#4926, aired 2006-01-30	STATE BIRDS $800: Hawaii's state bird, the nene, is a close relative of this "Canadian" bird the (Canada) goose
#4926, aired 2006-01-30	STATE BIRDS $1,000 (Daily Double): One naturalist reported that this state bird of Arkansas imitated the songs of 32 birds within 10 minutes the mockingbird
#4926, aired 2006-01-30	STATE BIRDS $1000: A state bird since 1947, its black & orange colors resemble those on the Calvert coat of arms the Baltimore oriole
#4912, aired 2006-01-10	PIC-POURRI $1200: Note there are no birds in the picture of this famous bird illustrator Audubon
#4906, aired 2006-01-02	HISTORIC NICKNAMES $1600: The ornithologist Robert Stroud had this nickname; his studies with live birds actually took place at Leavenworth "The Birdman of Alcatraz"
#4905, aired 2005-12-30	BACK TO THE FUCHSIA $800: Gardeners often plant fuchsias to attract these small birds of the family Trochilidae hummingbirds
#4900, aired 2005-12-23	THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS $200: These 3 birds are the gifts for the first 3 days French hens, turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree
#4891, aired 2005-12-12	FOR THE BIRDS $400: This bird's name can also mean "to swindle" & it's found in an ancient board game rook
#4891, aired 2005-12-12	FOR THE BIRDS $600 (Daily Double): The Athene genus of this bird contains 4 species the owl
#4891, aired 2005-12-12	FOR THE BIRDS $800: The greater & lesser scaups, unlike the gadwall, are types of these birds that are divers, not dabblers ducks
#4891, aired 2005-12-12	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: This "ruffed" state bird of Penn. is famous for the drumming sound its wings make when proclaiming its territory a grouse
#4891, aired 2005-12-12	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: This birds, of which the "great" one is extinct, are considered the N. hemisphere's counterpart to penguins auks
#4865, aired 2005-11-04	FOWL LANGUAGE $400: Fowl 5-letter adjective meaning arrogant or conceited cocky
#4856, aired 2005-10-24	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $200: The male emperor variety of these birds stands about 4 feet tall & incubates eggs between its feet & belly a penguin
#4856, aired 2005-10-24	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $400: Equipped with cameras, these birds were used to conduct aerial surveillance during World War I pigeons
#4856, aired 2005-10-24	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $600: Early Roman epicureans slaughtered flamingos to eat this organ of the lower mandible the tongue
#4856, aired 2005-10-24	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $800: This smallest variety of owl sounds like it works for Santa Claus an elf owl
#4856, aired 2005-10-24	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $1000: These large birds can be found in mixed herds with Guanacos in South America rheas
#4842, aired 2005-10-04	HITCHCOCK $400: Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller The Birds
#4821, aired 2005-07-18	HIRSCHFELD $400: Al Hischfeld depicted this noir classic in the drawing seen here The Maltese Falcon
#4807, aired 2005-06-28	ROBERT BURNS $1600: The hornpipes & strathspeys Burns mentions in a poem are these dances (or tunes)
#4782, aired 2005-05-24	U.S. GEOGRAPHY IN SONG $1000: Sure, you studied presidents & state birds, but how the Beastie Boys & their "No Sleep Till" here Brooklyn
#4780, aired 2005-05-20	PREDATORS $200: This patriotic symbol will hover above water birds until they exhaust themselves diving the bald eagle
#4738, aired 2005-03-23	YOU BEAST! $600: A nide is a brood of these birds (perhaps the ring-necked ones) pheasants
#4738, aired 2005-03-23	NATURE POETRY $1200: One of Robinson Jeffers' most famous poems is about a hurt one of these birds a hawk
#4728, aired 2005-03-09	4-LETTER BIRDS $400: The Arctic variety of this gull relative is famous for migrating over 25,000 miles each year a tern
#4728, aired 2005-03-09	4-LETTER BIRDS $800: It's sometimes referred to as the South American ostrich the rhea
#4728, aired 2005-03-09	4-LETTER BIRDS $1200: DNA from the remains of this extinct bird at a British museum proved that it had been part of the pigeon family the dodo
#4728, aired 2005-03-09	4-LETTER BIRDS $1600: Let's go fly the swallow-tail species seen here a kite
#4728, aired 2005-03-09	4-LETTER BIRDS $2000: The most abundant crow in Europe, you might find one near a castle a rook
#4706, aired 2005-02-07	BOTANY $200: Growers of this pitted red pie fruit plant mulberry trees near their orchards to entice birds away cherries
#4697, aired 2005-01-25	"FULL" HOUSE $2,000 (Daily Double): With people, this phrase means having achieved necessary rank or status; with birds, it means they're ready to fly full-fledged
#4691, aired 2005-01-17	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $200: Cayo Coco, a resort island off the northern coast of Cuba, is known for its flocks of these pink birds flamingos
#4691, aired 2005-01-17	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $400: Reasearchers have found brown thrashers may know 2,000 different ones of these, & marsh wrens, 200 songs (calls accepted)
#4691, aired 2005-01-17	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $600: These creatures are broadly divided into Saurischia, "lizard hips", & Ornithischia, "bird hips" dinosaurs
#4691, aired 2005-01-17	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $800: Kittiwakes are a species of birds of the family Laridae that nest on the ledges of beachside cliffs seagulls
#4691, aired 2005-01-17	A CATEGORY FOR THE BIRDS $1000: The last of these "great" birds was killed in 1844 on an island off Iceland a great auk
#4686, aired 2005-01-10	THE BIRD IS THE WORD $400: That this bird leaves its eggs in other birds' nests, that's just "crazy", man the cuckoo
#4685, aired 2005-01-07	ODD AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Declaring bankruptcy to get out of jail in 1819, he now had time to smell the roses & draw the birds Audubon
#4672, aired 2004-12-21	WATCH THE BIRDIE $400: Of the family Trochilidae, they're the smallest variety of birds a hummingbird
#4672, aired 2004-12-21	WATCH THE BIRDIE $1600: There doesn't seem to be a patron saint of hawks, but David of Wales is the patron of these birds doves
#4664, aired 2004-12-09	A "THORN"-Y CATEGORY $800: Barbara Stanwyck won an Emmy for her work on this 1983 TV miniseries The Thorn Birds
#4662, aired 2004-12-07	THE BRITISH ARE COMING! $2000: Before birds get sucked into jet engines, do they think, is that Rod Stewart in first class? opined this transvestite comic Eddie Izzard
#4661, aired 2004-12-06	QUOTH THE RAVEN? $1000: The birds in a song "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" sing in one of these trees, but would our bird? Quoth the raven... sycamore
#4660, aired 2004-12-03	SONG BIRDS $200: Steve Miller had a No. 2 hit with this 1977 song "Fly Like An Eagle"
#4660, aired 2004-12-03	SONG BIRDS $400: This songs begins "He rocks in the tree tops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singing his song" "Rockin' Robin"
#4660, aired 2004-12-03	SONG BIRDS $600: This bird is mentioned in the lyrics of both "Over The Rainbow" & "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" bluebird
#4660, aired 2004-12-03	SONG BIRDS $800: Anne Murray asked it to "Take me... to that land of gentle breezes where the peaceful waters flow" snowbird
#4660, aired 2004-12-03	SONG BIRDS $1000: Like Shelley, Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael wrote an ode to this title bird skylark
#4655, aired 2004-11-26	FRAIDY CAT $2,000 (Daily Double): A person with ornithophobia & apiphobia may avoid a talk on this subject feared by erotophobics the birds and the bees (or sex)
#4653, aired 2004-11-24	ANTHROPOLOGY $4,000 (Daily Double): To a Yurok Indian of the Pacific NW, the scalps of these birds that eat insects in trees were a form of wealth woodpeckers
#4639, aired 2004-11-05	TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES $1,000 (Daily Double): Ulysses was bound to his ship's mast to avoid the lure of the sounds of these demons, half women, half birds the sirens
#4615, aired 2004-10-01	BIRD-BRAINED BALLETS $200: One of these large birds is featured in "Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (reminds me of "Fantasia") ostriches
#4608, aired 2004-09-22	I'VE GOT SUPERNATURAL POWERS $400: A Scottish breed of cow shares its name with this Celtic god of love whose kisses become birds Angus
#4603, aired 2004-09-15	AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: Tick birds accompany this largest horned mammal, feeding on parasites on the skin & warning of danger a rhinoceros
#4597, aired 2004-09-07	FEATHERS $400: According to the proverb, "Birds of a feather" do this flock together
#4575, aired 2004-06-25	VULTURE CULTURE $800: DNA evidence suggests American vultures are closely related to these long-legged birds, family Ciconiidae storks
#4575, aired 2004-06-25	WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: In "The October Horse", this "Thorn Birds" author recounts the romance of Caesar & Cleopatra Colleen McCullough
#4573, aired 2004-06-23	DEAR JOHN $400: He illustrated "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America" but he's better known for his birds (John James) Audubon
#4572, aired 2004-06-22	ROGER THAT $1200: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson published his classic "A Field Guide to" these Birds
#4551, aired 2004-05-24	SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The poorwill is one of the few species of birds that's known to do this in the winter hibernate
#4540, aired 2004-05-07	ANTARCTICA $600: 2 species of these birds that inhabit Antarctica are the Adelie & the emperor the penguin
#4537, aired 2004-05-04	READING RAINBOW $600: A little brown bat who is raised among birds shines bright in this modern classic Stellaluna
#4535, aired 2004-04-30	OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: These smallest birds have very small legs & small feet; they perch but don't walk or climb hummingbirds
#4535, aired 2004-04-30	OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $1000: The nene, an endangered Hawaiian species of this fowl, has grown from 30 birds in 1952 to over 800 today goose
#4522, aired 2004-04-13	PICK UP YOUR CLOTHES $800: For 2001 "For the Birds" & "The Accountant" are 2 of these that won Oscars shorts
#4511, aired 2004-03-29	THE FIFTH DIMENSION $600: On his fifth voyage, his ship is destroyed by giant angry mythical birds called rocs Sinbad
#4508, aired 2004-03-24	"MINI" BAR $800: "Roots" or "The Thorn Birds" a miniseries
#4494, aired 2004-03-04	SCIENCE & NATURE $200: The deepest diver among these birds is the emperor species of this, which may dive to 900 feet in the Antarctic waters penguin
#4487, aired 2004-02-24	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $200: A holiday standard: KEY RUT turkey
#4487, aired 2004-02-24	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400: A big African: TO CHRIS ostrich
#4487, aired 2004-02-24	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $600: A head-banger: COWPOKE RED woodpecker
#4487, aired 2004-02-24	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $800: A city dweller: EGO NIP pigeon
#4487, aired 2004-02-24	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1000: A front yard favorite: I'M NO FLAG flamingo
#4483, aired 2004-02-18	BIOLOGY $800: In birds, the crop, a baglike swelling of this tube, is used to store food until there is room in the stomach the esophagus
#4468, aired 2004-01-28	SCIENCE GUYS $400: Naturalist William Maccgillivray provided most of the scientific data for this man's "Birds of America" Audubon
#4465, aired 2004-01-23	ENTERTAINING BIRDS $400: This canary with a wide-eyed stare is constantly on alert for Sylvester the Cat Tweety
#4465, aired 2004-01-23	ENTERTAINING BIRDS $800: Winken, Blinken & Nod were 3 orphaned pet birds raised by young Opie Taylor on a 1963 episode of this sitcom The Andy Griffith Show
#4465, aired 2004-01-23	ENTERTAINING BIRDS $1200: Catchphrases of this large windbag of a rooster include "Pay Attention, Boy!" & "Go Away Boy, You Bother Me" Foghorn Leghorn
#4465, aired 2004-01-23	ENTERTAINING BIRDS $1600: In commercials, a persistent white duck voiced by Gilbert Gottfried is the spokes-bird for this insurance company Aflac
#4465, aired 2004-01-23	ENTERTAINING BIRDS $2000: The mascot of the U.S. Forest Service, this owl wore a Robin Hood-style hat & told us to "Give a Hoot! Don't Pollute!" Woodsy
#4458, aired 2004-01-14	FOR BIRD BRAINS $400: One of the practices the "Kama Sutra" says men should master is training these birds to speak parrots
#4448, aired 2003-12-31	DOGS $2,000 (Daily Double): This dog was named for its ability to hunt birds called woodcock the Cocker Spaniel
#4431, aired 2003-12-08	CLASSICAL CLASSICS $200 (Daily Double): In 1749 audiences craned their necks to Handel's "Music for" these the Royal Fireworks
#4421, aired 2003-11-24	THE SEVEN "C"s $1600: Fish-loving sea birds seen here: cormorants
#4418, aired 2003-11-19	ARCHIPELAGOS $400: Several species of giant tortoise & over 7 dozen species of birds inhabit this Ecuadoran island group the Galapagos Islands
#4410, aired 2003-11-07	FOR THE BIRDS $400: Someone with keen eyesight has this bird's eye an eagle
#4410, aired 2003-11-07	FOR THE BIRDS $800: It can precede "-hearted" or "-livered" chicken
#4410, aired 2003-11-07	FOR THE BIRDS $1200: It's the bird mentioned in the full name of the tails worn by a well-dressed Fred Astaire swallow
#4410, aired 2003-11-07	FOR THE BIRDS $1600: Get one of this bird's eggs & you've got nothing, a big zero a goose
#4410, aired 2003-11-07	FOR THE BIRDS $2000: Early 20th century dancers performed this bird's "trot" the turkey
#4409, aired 2003-11-06	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $200: Nearly half of the height of this largest living bird is neck the ostrich
#4409, aired 2003-11-06	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: One species of this flightless bird lives at the Equator on the Galapagos Islands; other species live in Antarctica the penguin
#4409, aired 2003-11-06	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $600: The New Zealand government has passed laws to protect this national symbol & prevent its export the kiwi
#4409, aired 2003-11-06	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: Now extinct, this native of Mauritius is a character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" the dodo
#4409, aired 2003-11-06	FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1000: Australia's national bird, it has been hunted to scarcity because it's destructive to crops the emu
#4402, aired 2003-10-28	SHADES OF GRAY $1600: Birds that come up on the Random House word menu's list of grays include the pelican & this "peaceful" one the dove
#4384, aired 2003-10-02	DON'T BE CONFUSED $800: Ephedrine is an asthma drug; this is the actress who starred in "The Birds" Tippi Hedren
#4379, aired 2003-09-25	WILDLIFE $3,700 (Daily Double): This redbreasted thrush is one of the first birds to return north in the spring the robin
#4362, aired 2003-07-15	NEW ORLEANS $600: Many types of birds featured in this man's paintings may be seen at the New Orleans zoo named for him John James Audubon
#4360, aired 2003-07-11	YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL $200: Coots, rails & limpkins are types of these birds
#4351, aired 2003-06-30	LINE 'EM UP $600: From earliest movie to most recent: "The Birds", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "The Birdcage" Birdman of Alcatraz, The Birds, The Birdcage
#4349, aired 2003-06-26	ADD A LETTER $1000: Add this one letter to -ology to get the zoology branch that studies birds' eggs O (for oology)
#4348, aired 2003-06-25	THE WIZARDS $400: According to the Harry Potter books, wizards use these birds, like Harry's Hedwig, to deliver mail owls
#4346, aired 2003-06-23	SPELL THE LAST NAME $1200: 19th century "Birds of America" illustrator & naturalist John James... A-U-D-U-B-O-N
#4342, aired 2003-06-17	24 $600: In an old nursery rhyme four and twenty of these birds are baked into a pie served to a king blackbirds
#4339, aired 2003-06-12	TOP-RATED TV SHOWS $800: Part 4 of "The Thorn Birds" rated a 43.1; part 4 of this miniseries rated a 43.8 Roots
#4333, aired 2003-06-04	FOR THE BIRDS $200: These largest game birds of North America are traditionally enjoyed in November turkeys
#4333, aired 2003-06-04	FOR THE BIRDS $400: Edgar Allan Poe could tell you that it was the first bird Noah sent out from the ark to seek dry land raven
#4333, aired 2003-06-04	FOR THE BIRDS $600: This large member of the crow family shares its name with a piece used in the game of chess rook
#4333, aired 2003-06-04	FOR THE BIRDS $800: This small flightless bird is the only bird with its nostrils at the end of its beak kiwi
#4333, aired 2003-06-04	FOR THE BIRDS $1000: It's the "precious metal" yellow songbird known scientifically as Carduelis tristus goldfinch
#4320, aired 2003-05-16	ART $400: Legend says that ancient Greek Zeuxis painted a bunch of these so realistically, birds tried to eat them grapes
#4311, aired 2003-05-05	BACKWORDS $1600: "Lilith" actress Jean Seberg was as natural on screen as these birds grebes/Seberg
#4307, aired 2003-04-29	GRACELAND $800: Elvis' pets at Graceland included these birds of the pheasant family, with spreading tail feathers peacocks
#4307, aired 2003-04-29	WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $2000: Tippi Hedren doesn't suffer from ornithophobia, the fear of these creatures birds
#4305, aired 2003-04-25	THE LABORS OF HERCULES $400: Hercules used these flying weapons to shoot down the Stymphalian birds arrows
#4301, aired 2003-04-21	BIRDS $400: The willow ptarmigan, an Arctic grouse, is its state bird Alaska
#4301, aired 2003-04-21	BIRDS $800: The bittern's scientific name is Botaurus lentiginosus, the "-taurus" for its call resembling this animal's bull
#4301, aired 2003-04-21	BIRDS $1200: The largest North American species of the bird known as the martin is this "royal" one purple martin
#4301, aired 2003-04-21	BIRDS $1600: This "quiet" species is the only swan that has an orange bill mute swan
#4301, aired 2003-04-21	BIRDS $2000: The call of this Australian bird, AKA the laughing jackass, is often used in films & TV to typify jungle sounds kookaburra
#4276, aired 2003-03-17	THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $200: Nearly a quarter of all species of mammals are these flyers bats
#4276, aired 2003-03-17	THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $600: An African species of this reptile in the genus Dasypeltis feeds entirely on birds' eggs snake
#4274, aired 2003-03-13	DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF $400: Smaller species of these birds are commonly known as doves pigeons
#4264, aired 2003-02-27	AMERICAN BIRDS $200: The smallest bird native to the U.S. is the calliope species of this bird, which reaches a length of about 3 inches hummingbird
#4264, aired 2003-02-27	AMERICAN BIRDS $400: In 1943 South Dakota selected the ring-necked species of this as its state bird pheasant
#4264, aired 2003-02-27	AMERICAN BIRDS $600: The first spring appearance of this largest American thrush is said to be a sign that winter is about over robin
#4264, aired 2003-02-27	AMERICAN BIRDS $800: This cuckoo found in the southwest U.S. can dash up to 15 MPH (especially when it spots an Acme product) roadrunner
#4264, aired 2003-02-27	AMERICAN BIRDS $1000: In 1984 only about 20 of these California vultures were left; the number has since grown to over 100 California condor
#4259, aired 2003-02-20	MARLON BRANDO MOVIES $600: "Joey, Joey Doyle!... Hey I got one of your birds... He flew into my coop" On the Waterfront
#4257, aired 2003-02-18	MOUNDS $1000: The mounds near Marquette, Iowa are known as these mounds, as they are shaped like birds, bears & other animals effigy mounds
#4247, aired 2003-02-04	FALL TV 2002 $1000: On "Birds of Prey", Helena Kyle is the daughter of Batman & this master criminal Catwoman
#4246, aired 2003-02-03	GHOSTS OF LONDON $200: Attention, Colonel Sanders: the ghost of one of these birds has been seen flapping around Highgate since the 1600s chicken
#4246, aired 2003-02-03	U.S. COINS $800: Just prior to all those individual state designs, the quarter had one of these birds on the back eagle
#4246, aired 2003-02-03	ANIMAL PASSION $1200: Geese & these birds that include the trumpeter type mate for life; ducks are more promiscuous swans
#4244, aired 2003-01-30	THAT '70s SONG $200: This Carpenters classic begins, "Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near" "Close to You"
#4242, aired 2003-01-28	EGYPTIAN WILDLIFE $400: In Aug., thousands of these birds stop in Egypt on their migration to South Africa; that's a lot of baby deliveries! storks
#4238, aired 2003-01-22	"MY" OH, MY! $600: These members of the starling family are known for their ability to mimic human speech mynah birds
#4232, aired 2003-01-14	BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS $400: Because hawk moths flap their wings so rapidly, they are sometimes mistaken for these small birds hummingbirds
#4228, aired 2003-01-08	BALLET $2,000 (Daily Double): In a famous Tchaikovsky ballet, Odette is the queen of these birds swans
#4218, aired 2002-12-25	MOTHER NATURE'S STRANGE IDEAS $200: "Spills" of this are bad for shore birds but good for a species of fly whose larvae feed in them oil
#4216, aired 2002-12-23	DOUBLE-"Z" WORDS $400: When these birds are circling, the situation is not good buzzards
#4213, aired 2002-12-18	BIRDS $200: The akepa & akiapola'au are found in forest areas, only in this state Hawaii
#4213, aired 2002-12-18	BIRDS $400: The only birds in the family Trochilidae are these "hovercrafts" hummingbirds
#4213, aired 2002-12-18	BIRDS $600: During mating season the male ruff develops a large frill of feathers around this body part neck
#4213, aired 2002-12-18	BIRDS $800: This falcon's name is from the Latin for "foreign" or "a foreigner" peregrine
#4213, aired 2002-12-18	BIRDS $1000: The scientific name of this big bird is Diomedea exulans, as in "exile" albatross
#4210, aired 2002-12-13	OPERA $2000: This Johann Strauss operetta has appeared in an English version titled "Night Birds" Die Fledermaus
#4206, aired 2002-12-09	VETERINARY AFFAIRS $800: The Association of Avian Veterinarians says that to protect other birds, do this to a new bird for at least 6 weeks isolate it
#4201, aired 2002-12-02	FLOWERS $3,500 (Daily Double): These are sometimes known as "crane flowers" birds of paradise
#4195, aired 2002-11-22	SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) Sue the T. rex was found to possess this bone, which further links birds & dinosaurs--which half do you want? the wishbone
#4193, aired 2002-11-20	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: This term for a stingerless male bee sounds like an unmanned spy plane drone
#4193, aired 2002-11-20	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Monkey River in Belize) A mainstay of the toucan's diet, it's also in the name of the cereal that it promotes fruit
#4193, aired 2002-11-20	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $600: This substance produced by bees is used in the making of candles & cosmetics wax
#4193, aired 2002-11-20	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: Ectopistes migratorius is the scientific name of this now extinct variety of pigeon passenger pigeon
#4193, aired 2002-11-20	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1000: Seen here, this long-winged native of the Andes Mountains is actually a type of vulture condor
#4189, aired 2002-11-14	THE TOWER OF LONDON $800: These black birds who traditionally live at the Tower each get one egg a week as a treat ravens
#4184, aired 2002-11-07	HITCHCOCK MOVIES IN OTHER WORDS $400: "Taxonomic Class Aves" The Birds
#4184, aired 2002-11-07	MYTH AMERICA $2000: These giant birds of Native American myth were frequently at war with water monsters thunderbirds
#4183, aired 2002-11-06	HOW NOVEL $300 (Daily Double): Title that completes the line "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin..." "To Kill A Mockingbird"
#4182, aired 2002-11-05	ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $1000: In the names of birds, it follows Steller's, pinyon, gray & blue jay (J)
#4169, aired 2002-10-17	THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $400: "The Lodger", "Strangers on a Train", "The Birds" Alfred Hitchcock
#4169, aired 2002-10-17	UNDERGROUND $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Field Museum in Chicago.) Earthworms, like birds, have this portion of the digestive system; they use it to grind up the earth they swallow a gizzard
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	5-LETTER BIRDS $200: It's what a gosling grows up to be goose
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	5-LETTER BIRDS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Belize Zoo) Whoa, baby! The Jabiru variety of this bird stands up to 5 feet tall with a wingspan of 8 feet or more & it flies stork
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	5-LETTER BIRDS $600: Hunted at night by summer campers, but never found, it's actually a real bird related to the sandpiper snipe
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	5-LETTER BIRDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Looking similar to a crane, this great blue bird flies with its long neck in an S shape heron
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	THE ROSES $1000: In this film, Woody Allen is a manager to blind xylophonists, piano-playing birds & has-been crooners Broadway Danny Rose
#4168, aired 2002-10-16	5-LETTER BIRDS $1000: Darwin is noted for his study of this bird in the Galapagos Islands finch
#4166, aired 2002-10-14	PADRES $200: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie & Father de Bricassart The Thorn Birds
#4165, aired 2002-10-11	U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES $1000: To everything there is a season, including these endangered birds: the least, roseate & California least terns
#4164, aired 2002-10-10	SURPRISING SINGERS $1200: This "Thorn Birds" actor made a charming prince in the Cinderella movie musical "The Slipper and the Rose" Richard Chamberlain
#4157, aired 2002-10-01	PREDATOR $400: The main predators of these flightless birds are leopard seals & killer whales penguins
#4150, aired 2002-09-20	"LO" THERE $1000: This rhyming terms inplies that an affectionate couple is like 2 white birds lovey-dovey
#4149, aired 2002-09-19	ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $600: These birds were named for the colorfully robed "flock" seen here cardinals
#4147, aired 2002-09-17	NATURE $200: These birds, which usually feed while hovering, flap their wings at a rate of 60-75 times a second hummingbirds
#4147, aired 2002-09-17	OH JOY! IT'S OPERA! $800: In the 1983 opera named for him, this saint of Assisi preaches a sermon to the birds St. Francis of Assisi
#4143, aired 2002-09-11	ROCK & ROLL IS HERE TO STAY $1600: This "Super Freak" singer was once in a band called the Mynah Birds with Neil Young Rick James
#4124, aired 2002-07-04	ALCATRAZ-A-MATAZZ $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) The name Alcatraz is derived from the Spanish for "island of" these birds, that come in brown & white varities pelicans
#4123, aired 2002-07-03	THE FIRTH OF FORTH $800: Abundant in the Gulf of St. Lawrence & the Firth of Forth are gannets, which are these (sea) birds
#4120, aired 2002-06-28	MUPPETMANIA $400: Known for his extreme patriotism, Sam, of "Muppet Show" fame, is one of these birds eagle
#4104, aired 2002-06-06	FOREST $200: Types of these you'll find in the forest include the red-eyed vireo & the scarlet tanager birds
#4100, aired 2002-05-31	AVIARY $400: Aquila chrysaetos is the golden, not the bald one of these majestic birds eagle
#4100, aired 2002-05-31	AVIARY $800: The hooded pitohui is one of the few birds with this quality, also possessed by rattlers & other snakes poisonous
#4084, aired 2002-05-09	SINNERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from a building on an infamous island.) This "Birdman of Alcatraz" raised canaries at Leavenworth, but wasn't permitted birds here in his cell at Alcatraz (Robert) Stroud
#4052, aired 2002-03-26	STATE BIRDS $600: South Carolina's state bird is the Carolina wren, but this redbird is the state bird of North Carolina the cardinal
#4052, aired 2002-03-26	STATE BIRDS $800: The cactus wren, which builds its nest among cactus spines, it its state bird Arizona
#4046, aired 2002-03-18	ARMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Before the 19th century, this firearm was known as a birding or fowling piece a shotgun
#4044, aired 2002-03-14	THE "A" TEAM $400: It's an enclosure or large cage where birds are kept an aviary
#4024, aired 2002-02-14	ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? $1000: In a poem, this "Canterbury Tales" author wrote about birds choosing their mates on Valentine's Day Chaucer
#4016, aired 2002-02-04	FEATHERED FRIENDS $800: The Bermuda Zoo has been successfully breeding these long-legged, pink-feathered birds since 1967 flamingoes
#4004, aired 2002-01-17	I'D LIKE TO BUY AN OWL $1200: This "Elder" Roman wrote that owls foretell evil & are to be dreaded above all other birds Pliny
#3998, aired 2002-01-09	RHYME TIME $2000: Knotts' white water birds Don's swans
#3994, aired 2002-01-03	BIRDS $400: The nest of the Calliope variety of this bird is only about 1 1/2 inches across a hummingbird
#3994, aired 2002-01-03	BIRDS $800: America's first wildlife refuge was founded in 1903 to protect this bird, like the one seen here a pelican
#3994, aired 2002-01-03	BIRDS $1600: The wingspan of this "wandering" bird measures over 11 feet an albatross
#3994, aired 2002-01-03	BIRDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Only the male of this state bird of Kentucky is red; the female is brownish a cardinal
#3994, aired 2002-01-03	BIRDS $2000: (Sofia and friend give the clue.) This common penguin of Antarctica was named for the wife of a French explorer the Adélie penguin
#3974, aired 2001-12-06	BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $200: Continent where you'd find the teal Amazonetta brasiliensis South America
#3974, aired 2001-12-06	BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $400: Its Latin name indicates that Egretta alba is this color white
#3974, aired 2001-12-06	BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $600: Apteryx australis, it's actually confined to New Zealand kiwi
#3974, aired 2001-12-06	BIRDS' SCIENTIFIC NAMES $800 (Daily Double): Merops apiaster is an "eater" of these insects bees
#3964, aired 2001-11-22	LITERA-SEA $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew is at the beach.) The birds remind me of this 1970 book by former Air Force pilot Richard Bach "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"
#3936, aired 2001-10-15	KNOW YOUR MUPPETS $300: We're not sure what the creature seen here is, but we do know his girlfriend Camilla is one of these birds chicken
#3923, aired 2001-09-26	FOR THE BIRDS $200: The giant variety of this bird seen here is only about 8 inches long a hummingbird
#3923, aired 2001-09-26	FOR THE BIRDS $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Sea World.) Many penguin parents incubate their eggs on top of these body parts their feet
#3923, aired 2001-09-26	FOR THE BIRDS $600: It's the beach-dwelling bird seen here a sea gull
#3923, aired 2001-09-26	FOR THE BIRDS $800 (Daily Double): Screech & barn are 2 types of this large bird owls
#3923, aired 2001-09-26	FOR THE BIRDS $1000: In earlier times this colorful bird seen here was considered a delicacy a peacock
#3921, aired 2001-09-24	THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $300: These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium penguins
#3917, aired 2001-09-18	ALL IN THE FAMILY $400: The tallest flying birds are members of this family the crane
#3915, aired 2001-09-14	WHY DID THEY MAKE THIS MOVIE? $200: The 1973 film adaptation of this Richard Bach novel was "strictly for the birds" Jonathan Livingston Seagull
#3883, aired 2001-06-20	YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $200: Take a gander, & you'll know the birds seen here are known as these when young goslings
#3883, aired 2001-06-20	YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $500: A popular housepet, the birds seen here originally came from this continent Australia
#3880, aired 2001-06-15	AFRICAN WILDLIFE $800: Most of these flightless birds are found in or near Antarctica, but the jackass species is found off South Africa Penguins
#3874, aired 2001-06-07	BIRDS $600: Fanfare, please... it's the American counterpart to Europe's whooper swan the trumpeter swan
#3874, aired 2001-06-07	BIRDS $800: Heard here, this bird is named for its sad call a mourning dove
#3874, aired 2001-06-07	BIRDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Richard Chamberlain might know that the chestnut-backed & freckle-breasted are varieties of this bird thornbirds
#3868, aired 2001-05-30	BIRDIES $300: "All the little birds on Jaybird Street love to hear" this bird "go tweet, tweet, tweet" "Rockin' Robin"
#3856, aired 2001-05-14	THE POLITICAL LIFE $200: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds Lame duck
#3842, aired 2001-04-24	PSYCHO BABBLE $500: Norman says his hobby is this art, "Stuffing things" -- birds, mostly Taxidermy
#3840, aired 2001-04-20	"GOO" GOO G'JOOB $400: Term for a black-footed albatross found on islands in the Pacific gooney birds
#3837, aired 2001-04-17	PENGUINS $200: While penguins can't do this, they evolved from birds that could Fly
#3826, aired 2001-04-02	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $100: Illinois' state bird: CLAN RAID cardinal
#3826, aired 2001-04-02	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $200: A real show-off: COP CAKE peacock
#3826, aired 2001-04-02	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $300: Seen at the seashore: DARN PIPES sandpiper
#3826, aired 2001-04-02	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400: It's game if you are: HATE NAPS pheasant
#3826, aired 2001-04-02	ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $500: Gulp, gulp: OWL SLAW swallow
#3810, aired 2001-03-09	"T" BIRDS $100: You'll find this tropical bird on boxes of Kellogg's Froot Loops Toucan (Sam)
#3810, aired 2001-03-09	"T" BIRDS $200: One good one of these seabirds, including the Arctic variety, deserves another; that's why they're protected by law Tern
#3810, aired 2001-03-09	"T" BIRDS $400 (Daily Double): This small pigeon noted for its soft cooing is mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas" Turtledove
#3810, aired 2001-03-09	"T" BIRDS $400: The male of the cinnamon species of this duck is mainly red in color, not bluish-green Teal
#3810, aired 2001-03-09	"T" BIRDS $500: Eeek! It's the tufted woodland bird seen here Titmouse
#3805, aired 2001-03-02	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $100: Only female bees possess these poison-injecting organs Stingers
#3805, aired 2001-03-02	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: Bees & other animals also have wings, but birds are the only animals with these often colorful features Feathers
#3805, aired 2001-03-02	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $300: These small yellow finches were once used by coal miners to detect deadly gases Canaries
#3805, aired 2001-03-02	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $400: It's the only continent without bees Antarctica
#3805, aired 2001-03-02	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $500: Aaaack! It's the variety of Australian parrot seen here Cockatoo
#3803, aired 2001-02-28	OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $200: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet Penguin
#3803, aired 2001-02-28	OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $400: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap Woodpeckers
#3799, aired 2001-02-22	THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: These hunting birds have made a comeback in New York City, where they feast on pigeons peregrine falcons
#3799, aired 2001-02-22	GIVE 'EM THE BOOT $800: They can be long-legged aquatic birds or hip boots worn by aquatic fishermen waders
#3792, aired 2001-02-13	SIEGFRIEDS & ROYS $100: In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds Swan
#3777, aired 2001-01-23	NAME THAT NEBULA $200: Nebulae named for birds include this one in Ursa Major, sadly not found near the Pussycat Nebula Owl
#3767, aired 2001-01-09	BUTTERFLIES $600: This butterfly seen here is toxic to birds due to the milkweed plants eaten when it was a caterpillar: a Monarch butterfly
#3763, aired 2001-01-03	FUN DATES $200: It's been said that birds choose their mates on this holiday Valentine's Day
#3756, aired 2000-12-25	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $100: These domesticated bees take their name from the sticky substance they hoard honeybees
#3756, aired 2000-12-25	THE BIRDS & THE BEES $200: A home for some bees, it can also mean any place swarming with activity hive
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	"C" BIRDS $200: Bird associated with Aeneas Williams & Mark McGwire Cardinal
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	SINGING TV STARS $400: He hit the pop charts with his own version of "Love Me Tender" in 1962, 21 years before "The Thorn Birds" Richard Chamberlain
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	"C" BIRDS $400: Encarta says its "two-note call has been invoked in many musical compositions as well as in... clocks" a cuckoo
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	"C" BIRDS $600: The Whooping species of this is on the endangered list Crane
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	"C" BIRDS $800: Some of these flightless birds found in the forests of Australia have wattles like turkeys cassowary
#3750, aired 2000-12-15	"C" BIRDS $1000: From Old French for "raven of the sea", these greedy, web-footed birds have a distensible neck pouch Cormorants
#3748, aired 2000-12-13	DEAD LANGUAGE $100: A person or thing about to fail is said to be one of these terminal water birds Dead duck
#3726, aired 2000-11-13	BIRDS $100: A male one of these is a drake Duck
#3726, aired 2000-11-13	BIRDS $200: A flock of these is a gaggle Geese
#3726, aired 2000-11-13	BIRDS $300: Flying at 100-200 MPH, this bird is fast as its name implies; in fact, it's one of the fastest Swift
#3726, aired 2000-11-13	BIRDS $400: The Egyptian plover is also called this, from the old belief it cleaned the teeth of a Nile reptile Crocodile bird
#3726, aired 2000-11-13	BIRDS $500: From the elaborate dwellings wrens build, their Latin family name is this, meaning "cave-dweller" Troglodytes
#3721, aired 2000-11-06	"TWO" $600: Birds of a feather, or a low-value poker hand two of a kind
#3714, aired 2000-10-26	1820s AMERICA $100: The first illustrations of his "Birds of America" were printed in 1827 John James Audubon
#3695, aired 2000-09-29	U.S. HISTORY $400: After a plea from his son, Abe Lincoln was the first to give a presidential pardon to one of these birds (Thanksgiving) Turkey
#3689, aired 2000-09-21	___THE___ $1,000 (Daily Double): Make an exhaustive search to flush out birds, or what the Gores want to do Beat the Bushes
#3683, aired 2000-09-13	AFRICAN ANIMALS $200: Africa is home to both the "greater" & "lesser" types of these long-legged, curvy-necked pink wading birds Flamingos
#3682, aired 2000-09-12	ANIMAL PLANET $500: Useful in long-term avian study, it's the placing of metal identification tags on the legs of wild birds Banding
#3669, aired 2000-07-13	WOMEN: WRITE ON! $400: Like her "Thorn Birds", "The Ladies Of Missalonghi" is set in her native Australia Colleen McCullough
#3663, aired 2000-07-05	THE BIBLE $300: In the King James Version, these large black birds fed Elijah in hiding by the brook Cherith ravens
#3647, aired 2000-06-13	BEASTLY COMMON BONDS $200: Tiger swallowtail, Queen Alexandra's birdwing, great purple hairstreak butterflies
#3641, aired 2000-06-05	____ & ____ $400: This phrase comes from birds rubbing their beaks together & making amorous noises Bill & coo
#3640, aired 2000-06-02	'70s LIT $600: Super-selling '77 saga set on a sheep station "The Thorn Birds"
#3631, aired 2000-05-22	PRETTY BIRDIES $500: Sandhill & crowned are types of these graceful, long-necked birds that perform a dance before mating cranes
#3631, aired 2000-05-22	PRETTY BIRDIES $700 (Daily Double): This bird's name comes from its ability to copy the songs of other birds; it can also mimic pianos & people a mockingbird
#3628, aired 2000-05-17	ON AN OPEN FIRE $300: In 1620 perhaps the first good meal the Pilgrims had was a barbecued meleagris gallopovo, one of these birds Turkey
#3624, aired 2000-05-11	GIRAFFES $400: Perhaps for added security, giraffes graze with other species, including zebras & these large birds ostriches
#3610, aired 2000-04-21	ZOOLOGY $500: Unlike birds today, the Hesperornis of the Cretaceous period had these, all the better to eat fish with teeth

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (16 results returned)

#8942, aired 2023-10-03	THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci
#8180, aired 2020-03-13	BIRDS: Black-footed & black-browed are 2 species of this seabird whose name was influenced by the Latin word for "white" albatross
#7849, aired 2018-10-25	STATE BIRDS: The 2-word name of this black & orange or black & golden state bird derives in part from the Latin for "golden" Baltimore oriole
#7396, aired 2016-11-07	STATE BIRDS: Oddly, the California gull is the state bird of this landlocked state Utah
#7383, aired 2016-10-19	1960s SCIENCE BOOKS: Keats' line "The sedge is withered from the lake, and no birds sing" inspired the title of this groundbreaking book Silent Spring (by Rachel Carson)
#7123, aired 2015-07-29	WOMEN AUTHORS: This woman who passed away in 2015 wrote what is billed as Australia's "Gone with the Wind" Colleen McCullough
#6760, aired 2014-01-24	GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION: Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth's Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing" Silent Spring
#6465, aired 2012-10-26	21st CENTURY GAMES: The villains in this game were inspired by the swine flu epidemic scare Angry Birds
#6342, aired 2012-03-27	20th CENTURY NOVELS: "Books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers" is a line from this novel Fahrenheit 451 (by Ray Bradbury)
#5812, aired 2009-12-15	NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS: This bird is known for its size (5 feet tall), its call (carries 2 miles) & its rarity; in 1941 there were only 21 in the wild the whooping crane
#4958, aired 2006-03-15	NATURE: Far from the mainland, Hawaii is poor in native mammals: it has 2, a type of seal & a type of this, order Chiroptera a bat
#4452, aired 2004-01-06	ANIMALS: Camelus, the genus name of camels, is also the species name of these birds ostriches
#4074, aired 2002-04-25	THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: One of the 2 birds honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (1 of) Big Bird or Woody Woodpecker
#3980, aired 2001-12-14	BIRDS: This North American bird is known scientifically as Mimus polyglottos mockingbird
#3896, aired 2001-07-09	BOOKS: The accompanying text to this book was published separately as "Ornithological Biography" in the 1830s Birds of America
#2666, aired 1996-03-18	BIRDS: Ectopistes migratorius is the scientific name of this now-extinct bird the passenger pigeon

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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California	2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections	"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
Anthony Fox, an account executive from Arlington Heights, Illinois	Season 27 4-time champion: $51,998 + $1,000. Playing as "Tony", Anthony...
Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota	Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...

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