| TURTLEDOVE | Old World bird with a brown plumage and speckled wings associated with song The Twelve Days of Christmas |
| MAIDS | An old fashioned word for female dairy workers, such as the eight counted in the song The Twelve Days of Christmas (5) |
| HOOPOE | Old World bird with a pinkish-brown body and black and white wings (6) |
| SEAEAGLE | Fish-eating bird of prey that lives near the coast; having a brown plumage and white tail (3,5) |
| BUSTARD | Old World bird with long legs and a speckled plumage such as the Great ___ (7) |
| THRUSH | Songbird with a brown plumage and a spotted breast (6) |
| MISTLETHRUSHES | Songbirds with a brown plumage and a spotted breast (6,8) |
| 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) |
| ROBIN | Insectivorous Old World bird with a bright red breast |
| REEDWARBLER | Common Old World songbird with a brown plumage, inhabiting marshy regions (4,7) |
| SPARROW | A small bird with a brown or grey plumage that feeds on seeds or insects (7) |
| SETTER | Gun dog with breeds including the black-and-tan "Gordon", red "Irish" and speckled "English"; or, another word for a compositor, crossword compiler or typographer (6) |
| HEATH | Sharing its name with an ericaceous moorland habitat, a buff-orange brush-footed butterfly whose satyrid "brown" relatives include the gatekeeper, grayling, marbled-white, ringlet and speckled wood (5 |
| CURLEW | Wading bird with mottled brown plumage and a long down-curving beak (6) |
| ANI | New World bird with a wobbly flight |
| EAGLEOWL | Old World bird with distinctive ear tufts |
| BILK | Acker ?, Somerset-born jazz clarinettist associated with song Stranger on the Shore who died in 2014 |
| ACKERBILK | Somerset-born jazz clarinettist associated with song Stranger on the Shore who died in 2014 |
| ACKER | & 6D Somerset-born jazz clarinettist associated with song Stranger on the Shore who died in 2014 |
| CHUKAR | Common Indian partridge with a greyish-brown plumage and red legs (6) |
