| BEWICK | Thomas -, author of A History of British Birds who died in 1828 (6) |
| SCHAMA | Simon , writer and presenter of A History of Britain (6) |
| OLIVER | Presenter of 'A History of Scotland', Neil - (6) |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds that is Scotland's national game bird (6) |
| DURHAM | Author of a history making 1837 report |
| GARUDA | Hindu deity described as the king of the birds, who serves as Vishnu's mount (6) |
| DIONYSIUS | ---------of Halicarnassus, Greek historian and rhetorician, the author of a history of Rome (9) |
| SEACOB | Strange case of British bird |
| SHAKA | Founder of the Zulu empire in southern Africa who died in 1828 (5) |
| LIVY | Writer of a history of ancient Rome (4) |
| GOYA | Francisco de ..., Spanish painter and etcher who died in 1828 (4) |
| BELLO | Maria of "A History of Violence" |
| SONGBIRDS | Blackbirds, robins and thrushes all belong to this group of British birds (9) |
| GREBE | One of a "water dance" of dabchicks or great crested birds who build floating nests and whose courtship displays were studied by Aldous Huxley's brother Julian (5) |
| ANSELM | Half of 20 across is for the Dutch birds who founded scholasticism (6) |
| KIWIFRUIT | One of those birds who won't fly with pair - sounds like a Chinese gooseberry (4,5) |
| ROD | Actor, 1930-2015, (The Time Machine, The Birds) who grew up in Lidcombe (3,6) |
| LEAR | Painter of landscapes and birds who introduced The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in his Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (4) |
| WRENS | We point to the British navy and the birds who join it (5) |
| LAPWINGS | British birds of the plover family, also known as peewits (8) |
