| SISKINS | Birds related to the goldfinch |
| SISKIN | Sharp-billed olive-green songbird related to the goldfinch (6) |
| TERNS | Sea birds related to the gulls |
| PETRELS | Strong winged birds related to the albatrosses |
| DUCKS | Known collectively as a paddling, badling or badelynge, birds related to the waterfowl associated wi |
| TYRANTFLYCATCHER | Any member of an American family of birds related to the pittas and cotingas (6,10) |
| BITTERNS | Wading birds related to the heron, noted for their booming calls (8) |
| GEESE | Birds related to swans, six of which are in The Twelve Days of Christmas (5) |
| RAILS | Birds related to coots, moorhens and crakes; or, the inside barrier of a racecourse (5) |
| TITMICE | Small birds related to chickadees |
| EAGLES | Birds related to kites and hawks (6) |
| EMUS | Birds related to cassowaries |
| TANAGERS | South American birds related to finches (8) |
| JAYS | Birds related to crows |
| DONNATARTT | Writer who followed The Secret History with The Little Friend and The Goldfinch |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| DONNA | --- Tartt, author of The Secret History and The Goldfinch |
| 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) |
| HERONS | With a number nesting at Northward Hill in Kent, birds related to bitterns and egrets, known collectively as a sedge or hedge (6) |
| SANDGROUSE | Common name for Pterolidae, ground-dwelling birds related to pigeons, mostly found in arid areas |
