| WAXBILL | Brightly-coloured, Old World, finch-like songbird with a red bill (7) |
| WEAVER | Small, Old World, finch-like songbird noted for its elaborately woven nest (6) |
| PIPIT | Lark-like songbird with brown speckled plumage (5) |
| MOORHEN | Common waterbird with a red bill tipped with yellow |
| SPARROW | With two species in the UK, a finch-like bird known collectively as a host, quarrel or tribe (7) |
| ROLLER | Brightly-coloured Old World bird such as the European ___ or Lilac-breasted ___ with an erratic disp |
| ORTOLAN | Brownish finch-like bird eaten as a delicacy (7) |
| TANAGER | Cultivate a great new finch-like bird (7) |
| CHOUGH | Large black bird, Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, with a red bill (6) |
| BLACKSWAN | Large Australian bird, Cygnus atratus, with a red bill (5,4) |
| BUNTING | Flags; finch-like bird |
| LINNET | Brownish Old World finch, the male of which has a red breast and forehead (6) |
| ENOLAGAY | Single about American with brightly coloured old bomber (5,3) |
| SHELDUCKS | Birds of the genus Tadorna with brown, black and white plumage and a red bill (9) |
| ORIOLE | The African golden - is woodland bird with yellow plumage and a red bill (6) |
| MUTE | --- swan, a Eurasian swan with a pure white plumage and an orange-red bill with a black base (4) |
| SERTN | Old World finch |
| SERIN | Old World finch |
| CEYLONMYNA | Name for Gracula ptilogenys, a starling-like songbird of Sri Lanka (6,4) |
| TAKAHE | Very rare, flightless bird of New Zealand with a large, red bill (6) |
