It doesn't have to be the order we suggested it in! Do you think Johnny would drop the "project" part off his search to see if it might get him closer to it? From our cursory look at things (AKA fiddling with Google), it's the project that would skew the results away from the meadowlark (and the basis of our original answer).

If you think he would, he can always go, "Well, the only thing that matches that is a bird?"

Hopefully this clears it up! As we said before, there are a few bird-related hints lying around, but they're very spread out.