| YELLOWHAMMER | Bird, the bunting (Emberiza citrinella) (12) |
| ORTOLAN | Brownish bunting, Emberiza hortulana, which is eaten as a delicacy (7) |
| CORN | Common crop we might connect with the bunting bird (4) |
| ORTOLANS | Birds of the bunting family, once prized as a delicacy |
| YELLOWHAMMERS | Birds of the bunting family (13) |
| TANAGER | Songbird of the bunting family (7) |
| REEDBUNTING | Emberiza schoeniclus, European bird that breeds in marshy environments (4,7) |
| BITTERN | Snapped the bird - the bird on the shore (7) |
| SGOOSE | A black, dusky, hazel, red, ruffled, sage, spruce or willow game bird that is small and plump, yet its name derives from the Latin word for the tall slender long-legged bird, the crane (6) |
| EAGER | Keen to get the bird the French left to the Queen (5) |
| MAURITIUS | Indian Ocean island nation which was the only known habitat of the flightless bird, the dodo (9) |
| BOOM | Sound caused by the shock waves of a supersonic aircraft; or, the cry of Britain's loudest bird, the bittern (4) |
| WRENCH | Bird the child found in the tool shed |
| HERON | The bird: the female tailless one (5) |
| WORD | "The Bird's the ___" |
| CHRISTOPHERWREN | A.A. Milne's boy's got the wrong bird: the great 3 gave him his chance (11,4) |
| HELEN | The Spanish are taken in by a bird, the old beauty |
| NIGHTINGALE | Popular name for the 19th century opera star Jenny Lind (who sang like a bird), the Swedish ... |
| RHEA | Name of a flightless ostrich-like bird; the second-largest moon of Saturn; or, the mother of Zeus (4) |
| CUBA | Home to the world's smallest bird, the bee hummingbird, which measures just 2.25" |
