鳥

cross-stitch

third cockcrowing

black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)

turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie

great frigatebird (Fregata minor)

rufous hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx hyperythrus); northern hawk-cuckoo

Astronomy

Apus (constellation); the Bird-of-Paradise

northern flicker (species of bird, incl. the yellow-shafted flicker and the red-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus)

bird of passage; migratory bird

birds

Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

the beauties of nature and the harmony that exists between it and man (as the key poetic theme of a haiku)

migrating bird (that is just passing through en route to its final destination)

Eurasian wigeon (Anas penelope)

plover on the riverside; plovers near a river

caged bird

Idiomatic expression

great vigor; tremendous energy; forceful enough to knock down birds in flight

Word usually written using kana alone

black-rumped waxbill (Estrilda troglodytes)

estrildid (any bird of family Estrildidae); waxbill

Colloquial

Formosan whistling thrush (Myophonus insularis)

blue-and-white flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana)

Okinawa woodpecker (Sapheopipo noguchii)

protected bird

prefectural bird

Japanese bush warbler

mountain bird