| HOOPOE | Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill. |
| ORIOLES | From the Latin meaning "golden", Old World birds with yellow plumage and black lores; or, New World birds whose "orchard" species are known collectively as a harvest (7) |
| CURLEW | Wading bird with mottled brown plumage and a long down-curving beak (6) |
| FLYCATCHER | Any of various insectivorous Old World birds including the robin, stonechat, wheatear and the black redstart whose Italian name means "red-tailed chimney sweep" (10) |
| IBIS | Wading bird of warm regions with a long, slender, down-curved bill |
| RDOVES | Domestic Old World birds |
| TURTLEDOVE | Old World bird with a brown plumage and speckled wings associated with song The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| ROBIN | Insectivorous Old World bird with a bright red breast (5) |
| TROGON | Member of a family of tropical birds, with a brilliant plumage and a short, hooked bill (6) |
| AVOCET | Long-legged wading bird with a slender, upwardcurving bill, the emblem of the RSPB (6) |
| WREN | Known collectively as a herd or a chime and depicted on farthings, the "king of the birds" with a female married to a robin redbreast in an old poem (4) |
| TREECREEPER | Small songbird with a slender downward-curving bill (4,7) |
| BUSTARD | Old World bird with long legs and a speckled plumage such as the Great ___ (7) |
| PEEWIT | Large, crested Old World plover (PEW TIE anagram) (6) |
| SANDPIPER | Small wading bird with a slender bill (9) |
| PIGEON | Common bird with a slender bill (6) |
| PEWIT | Large crested Old World plover |
| ROOKS | Large Eurasian birds with a black plumage and a whitish base to the bill (5) |
| EAGLEOWL | Old World bird with distinctive ear tufts (5,3) |
| ANI | New World bird with a wobbly flight |
