| HERONS | With a number nesting at Northward Hill in Kent, birds related to bitterns and egrets, known collectively as a sedge or hedge (6) |
| REEDS | Plants affording habitat to bitterns and water rails, eg |
| EMBANKMENT | Hill in Kent, for men with an MBA? Weird! (10) |
| MINSMERE | Suffolk nature reserve, with otters, bitterns and red deer (8) |
| WADERS | Herons and egrets |
| MARSH | Home for herons and egrets |
| SNOWY | Adjective for some owls and egrets |
| DUCKS | Known collectively as a paddling, badling or badelynge, birds related to the waterfowl associated wi |
| RAILS | Birds related to coots, moorhens and crakes; or, the inside barrier of a racecourse (5) |
| KNOTS | Rope fastenings tied as part of essential skills at Scouts; units of nautical speed; or, wading birds related to sandpipers, turnstones and snipe (5) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| GEESE | Birds related to swans, six of which are in The Twelve Days of Christmas (5) |
| TYRANTFLYCATCHER | Any member of an American family of birds related to the pittas and cotingas (6,10) |
| SANDGROUSE | Common name for Pterolidae, ground-dwelling birds related to pigeons, mostly found in arid areas |
| EAGLES | Birds related to kites and hawks (6) |
| JAYS | Birds related to crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws and ravens (4) |
| BOOM | A loud resonant sound of a bass drum, bittern, cannon, explosion, thunderclap, shock wave etc; a spar on a ship; or, a sudden surge or uptick in births, business or prosperity (4) |
| TITMICE | Small birds related to chickadees |
| TERNS | Sea birds related to the gulls |
| PETRELS | Strong winged birds related to the albatrosses |
