| SOLITARY | Shoebills are ___ they are mostly seen alone, except during the breeding season. |
| CARAFES | Wine-flasks are mostly seen in small restaurants (7) |
| HERBIVORES | Wombats are ___. They only eat plants. |
| SPECIAL | They are ___ creatures and only come together during the breeding season. |
| FLY | Shoebills are able to ___ but don't travel very far by this method. |
| RELATED | Shoebills are closely ___ to pelicans. |
| EGRET | White heron that grows long, graceful plumes during the breeding season. (5) |
| SHAKER | One rarely seen alone in restaurants |
| MAGPIE | A black-and-white corvid said to bring sorrow when seen alone or joy when with a companion (6) |
| WADI | Ravine that is dry except during the rainy season |
| PET | White House resident, except during the administrations of Polk and Trump |
| EARTHY | They are mostly awfully coarse (6) |
| RUFF | A reeve's male counterpart, named for its distinguishing frill or collar of ornamental neck feathers in the breeding season; the perch-like pope; the old card game "trump"; or, a low vibrating beat of |
| BOBOLINK | American songbird, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the male of which has a white back in the breeding season |
| EGRETS | Which of the various worldwide herons bear long plumes in the breeding season (6) |
| CRESTEDGREBE | Great --- ---, aquatic bird with blackish ear tufts and, in the breeding season, a dark brown frill around the head (7,5) |
| WATTLING | This type of starling loses its head feathers in the breeding season and then regrows them, a trait that has drawn the interest of scientists researching baldness. |
| GREATCRESTEDGREBE | Bird having blackish ear tufts in the breeding season (5,7,5) |
| SHAG | Cormorant with a curly crest in the breeding season (4) |
| UNTRUTHS | Lies about hunts around the breeding season (8) |
