| PIGEON | This bird's name refers to any of several hundred species constituting the family Columbidae (order Columbiformes). One species is a particularly adroit navigator and has been used to carry messages. |
| MONOTYPE | Any one species constituting a genus |
| ACONITE | Term that refers to any of several different usually toxic plants |
| FINCH | This bird's name embraces several hundred species of small conical-billed, seed-eating songbirds. Some birds that are considered a type of this bird include canaries, cardinals, goldfinches, and sparr |
| EAGLE | This bird's name refers to any of numerous large, heavy-beaked, big-footed birds of prey belonging to the family Accipitridae. One species is a symbol of the United States. In Titus AndronicusHenry IV |
| FLAMINGO | This bird's name refers to any of six species of tall, pink wading birds with thick downturned bills. They have slender legs, long, graceful necks, large wings, and short tails. Flocks numbering in th |
| VALKYRIE | In Norse mythology, this term refers to any of a group of maidens who served the god Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla. |
| WREN | This bird's name may refer to any of approximately 85 species of small, chunky, brownish birds; one of those species is Troglodytes troglodytes. In Macbeth (act 4, scene 2), Lady MacDuff says, "...for |
| SPARROW | The name of this bird refers to any of a number of small, chiefly seed-eating birds that have conical bills. In Henry IV, Part 1 (act 2, scene 4), Hal says, "He that rides at high speed and with the p |
| WOODPIGEONS | Large birds of the family Columbidae, with white patches on the wings and neck (4,7) |
| ROCKDOVE | Common bird of the family Columbidae from which the domestic pigeon is descended; Columba livia (4,4) |
| DOVES | Birds of the family Columbidae |
| DOVE | Small pigeon of the family 'columbidae' (4) |
| GRANTA | Name of the river constituting the upper reaches of the River Cam (6) |
| KNAVE | Meaning "boy", another word for a jack in cards due to the aforesaid name originally being used to refer to any ordinary man (5) |
| GRAND | What type of 'Slam' refers to any one of four tennis majors? (5) |
| RUBALKHALI | Vast desert region in the southern Arabian Peninsula, constituting the largest portion of the Arabian Desert. Its name means "Empty Quarter" in Arabic. (3,2,5) |
| KRILL | From Norwegian for "small fish fry", a micro crustacean forming one of Earth's largest biomasses and constituting the principal food of the largest living animal, the blue whale (5) |
| PITH | Soft fibrous tissue constituting the middle layer of the mesocarp of a citrus fruit (hesperidium) (4) |
| CHONDROGENESIS | Process of cartilage formation in the body, constituting the earliest phase of skeletal development (14) |
