| REDSHANK | Wading bird of the snipe family (8) |
| RODENT | Word, from "fly homeward in the evening", for the regular dusk or dawn flight of the "snipe of the woods" (6) |
| DOTTEREL | A small wading bird of the plover family (8) |
| WOODCOCK | Enigmatic mainly nocturnal wading bird related to the snipe that carries its young in flight (8) |
| SNIPE | Any of around 26 species of wading bird of the sandpiper family (Scolopacidae) resembling the woodcock, especially the common Gallinago gallinago (5) |
| SHOEBILL | Large wading bird of African swamps (8) |
| AVOCET | Long-legged wading bird of the genus Recurvirostra; the emblem of the RSPB (6) |
| LIMPKIN | Wading bird of the Americas, sometimes called the crying bird (7) |
| TURNSTONE | Coastal wading bird of the sandpiper family such as the Ruddy ___ (9) |
| CRANE | Any large long-necked wading bird of the family Gruidae, related to the coots and rails (5) |
| RAIL | Any wading bird of the family Rallidae, related to the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, coots etc. (4) |
| IBIS | Any of various long-legged wading birds of the family Threskiornithidaey, which also includes the spoonbills (4) |
| KNOT | Small wading bird of the sandpiper family (4) |
| CURLEW | Wading bird of the sandpiper family with long, downcurved bill |
| PLOVER | Short-billed wading bird of the family Charadriidae (6) |
| STORK | Large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae (5) |
| HERON | Long-legged. long-necked. wading bird of the family Ardeidae (5) |
| SCAPE | The cry of a snipe when flushed; the snipe itself; an old word for a getaway, slip or transgression; a suffix indicating a scene, as in land, moon or sea; or, the leafless flower stem of the amaryllis |
| GODWIT | Wading bird of the genus Limosa (6) |
| SNIPES | Wading birds of the genus Gallinago and related genera which have a long straight bill (6) |
