| REEDBUNTING | Emberiza schoeniclus, European bird that breeds in marshy environments (4,7) |
| SNOWBUNTING | Finch-like bird that breeds around the Arctic |
| CUCKOO | European bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other species (6) |
| DUNLIN | Small wading bird with a slightly down-curved bill that breeds in the uplands of Scotland, Wales and England |
| SABINES | ___ gull is a small seabird that breeds in the Arctic (7) |
| OUSEL | A Blackbird that breeds in Mallorca (5) |
| BARNACLE | ____ goose, medium-sized one that breeds in Greenland and the Russian Arctic (8) |
| GANNET | Large diving seabird that breeds in noisy colonies (6) |
| SNOWYOWLS | White birds of prey that breed in cold regions (5,4) |
| CRESTFALLEN | Disappointed about others completely trapped in marshy area |
| BIRD | The great skua, or bonxie, is the only ____ that breeds both in the Arctic and in the Antarctic (4) |
| EEL | Fish whose European species breeds in the Sargasso Sea |
| PTARMIGAN | Bird of the grouse family which breeds in the mountains of the Highlands (9) |
| YELLOWHAMMER | The European bunting Emberiza citrinella (12) |
| ORTOLAN | Brownish bunting, Emberiza hortulana, that is eaten as a delicacy (7) |
| HUDSONIANGODWIT | Shorebird that breeds at a similarsounding (to the answer's first word) bay in canada: 2 wds. |
| AMPHIBIAN | Vertebrate that lives on land but breeds in water, including the frog, toad and newt (9) |
| STUDIOUS | Keen to research place that breeds debts |
| DOTTEREL | A variety of plover which breeds in mountain areas |
| AMURFALCON | Small raptor which breeds in east Asia before migrating to South Africa (4,6) |