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PEACOCKThe tail feathers of what bird are considered unlucky? (7)
SPOTSEye; markings on the tail feathers of a peacock or the wings of the butterflies described in 25 Down (5)
PEACOCKORENickname for the mineral bornite because of its range of iridescent colours resembling the plumage and tail feathers of India's national bird (7,3)
EIDERIn Iceland, the soft feathers of what duck are gathered from nests for clothing and bedding? (5)
QUILLPen made from the main wing or tail feather of a large bird, by pointing and slitting the end of the shaft (5)
SICKLEA reaping-hook; a long curved tail feather of a cockerel, reminiscent of said tool; or, with the galleon and the knut, a unit of wizarding currency in the Harry Potter universe (6)
ROCSinbad the Sailor discovered the eggs of what bird? (3)
IBISEgyptian god Thoth is depicted as a man with the head of what bird? (4)
LADDERSSets of portable stairs, depicted on some types of game-boards with snakes and considered unlucky if walked underneath (7)
OSTRICHWhat bird was farmed in New Zealand in the 1880s for its feathers? (7)
SPARROWWhat bird is mentioned in the final act of Shakespeare's Hamlet? (7)
EYESPOTType of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7)
REMIGESLarge flight feathers of a bird's wing (7)
DUCKEiderdown, the down feathers of the common eider -- which is a type of this bird -- are used in some quilts and pillows. In Pericles (act 3, prologue) is the following reference: "...the grisly north
FEATHERWhat bird has to put out for the fare (7)
PLUMAGEFeathers of a bird (7)
EMUWRENSmall Australian bird with six coarse tall tail feathers (3,4)
SKYLARKVaughan Williams' piece The Lark Ascending (1914) is about what bird?
TICKOFFRuffle the feathers of
UNNERVERuffle the feathers of