| 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) |
| WHIP | Dialect for gorse, hence found in the name of a bird that frequents said furze and is allied to the stonechat (4) |
| 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) |
| HOOPOE | Any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill. |
| DRONGO | Insectivorous Old World bird that might be fork-tailed or spangled (6) |
| ROBIN | Insectivorous Old World bird with a bright red breast (5) |
| RDOVES | Domestic Old World birds |
| MAORI | Member of a people of the island country where birds including the kea, kiwi and weka are endemic (5 |
| CHAT | Name of a family of Old World songbirds that includes the redstart, nightingale and wheatear (4) |
| RAIL | One of a family of ground-living birds, including the crakes, coots, etc (4) |
| AGAMA | Genus of small to medium long-tailed, insectivorous Old World lizards (5) |
| PICOIDES | Genus of bird including the Eurasian and American three-toed woodpeckers (8) |
| CREX | Genus of birds including the corncrake |
| PARIDAE | Large family of small passerine birds, including the tits (7) |
| OVENTIT | Dialect word for some birds including the willow warbler (4-3) |
| STENDHAL | Pen name of Marie Henri Beyle, French novelist who wrote The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma (8) |
| CHALCEDONY | Name of a family of microcrystalline quartz stones ranging from the reddish-brown carnelian, fire agate and jasper to the blue-cheese-coloured moss agate and the black onyx (10) |
| ROTHKO | US painter of "Light Earth and Blue" and "The Black and the Red" (6) |
| SEEDS | Grains, kernels, pips, stones... embryonic plants constituting the diet of granivorous birds including goldfinches, turtledoves, wood pigeons and tree sparrows (5) |
| DEADHEAD | Eaten by birds including goldfinches, part of the teasel, poppy, rudbeckia or other plant after flowering/fruiting (8) |
