Long-necked wading bird
The crossword clue "Long-necked wading bird" is answered by HERON, a 5-letter entry. Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HERON
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HERON answer page.
Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1986. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for HERON
Every other clue in this collection answered by HERON, most used first.
- Wading bird - used 79 times, most recently in 2025
- "Great blue" bird - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Long-necked bird - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Marsh bird - used 18 times, most recently in 2021
- Long-legged wader - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Marsh wader - used 16 times, most recently in 2021
- Shore bird - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Long-legged bird - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Long-legged wading bird - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Egret's cousin - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Everglades wader - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Ibis's cousin - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Long-billed bird - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Bird with an S-shaped neck - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Great blue wader - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Marsh denizen - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Bayou bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Long-necked wader - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Bird-related - AVIAN, used 109 times
- Wading bird - EGRET, used 101 times
- Long (for) - YEARN, used 99 times
- Long stories - SAGAS, used 95 times
- Long look - STARE, used 89 times
- "Snowy" bird - EGRET, used 80 times
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