| RINGDOVE | Common British bird, Columba palumbus, also called the woodpigeon (4,4) |
| WOODPIGEON | Columba palumbus - a major pest of cabbages, sprouts, peas and grain (also buds, shoots, seeds, nuts and berries) (4,6) |
| PEST | Any blighter like the woodpigeon (4) |
| ROCKDOVE | Common bird of the family Columbidae from which the domestic pigeon is descended; Columba livia (4,4) |
| SPARROW | (Formerly very) common British bird (7) |
| WREN | Common British bird (4) |
| ROBIN | Common British bird |
| SWALLOW | Common British bird (7) |
| DOVETAIL | A type of tenon or joint that is characteristically fan- or wedge-shaped, like the spread train feathers of a culver or columba (8) |
| STBRIGID | Abbess who, with Patrick and Columba, is a patron saint of Ireland |
| FISHBOWL | Search for British bird in place of observation (8) |
| GREATAUK | Important article on British bird! (5,3) |
| WHIMBREL | British bird resembling a small curlew |
| BLACKCAP | British bird with a similar song to a garden warbler’s |
| BERMUDAN | British bird admits reading abridged version of Hamlet to an islander living in a place known for its disappearances (8) |
| GRUS | Symbolised by a crane, one of the constellations named after a bird, along with Aquila the Eagle, Columba the Dove, Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan and others (4) |
| LEPUS | Latin designation of the hare from which the constellation bordered by Orion the Hunter, Columba the Dove and Eridanus the River derived its name (5) |
| BLUETIT | Common British garden bird with blue, yellow, white and green colouring (4,3) |
| DACE | Common British river fish related to the carp |
| DOVE | Bird in the pigeon family; or, the constellation Columba (4) |
