| WADERS | General word for shoreline birds such as sandpipers and plovers; or, long waterproof boots for angling (6) |
| SHORELINE | Part of the coast where the ocean meets the land; the habitat of birds such as sandpipers and turnstones (9) |
| GULLS | Shoreline birds |
| ROCKPOOL | Home for shoreline creatures (4,4) |
| PLOVER | Shoreline bird |
| SANDPIPER | Shoreline bird (9) |
| GULL | Shoreline bird |
| WADER | High, waterproof boot, for a sandpiper, say? (5) |
| STANDS | Booths for street food; groups of plovers or saplings; open-air stages for brass bands; or, pedestals (6) |
| REEDS | Wetland grasses with hollow stems providing materials for thatchers and habitats for birds such as marsh harriers and bitterns (5) |
| COTE | Small shelter for animals such as sheep or birds such as pigeons (4) |
| SHORE | Land bordering an ocean or lake, often inhabited by waders including sandpipers and oyster-catchers (5) |
| TOMTITS | Birds such as the milk-bottle-top-pecking cerulean "billy biters", nuns or pick-cheeses forming "banditries"; or, their bearded, coal, crested, great, long-tailed, marsh or willow cousins (7) |
| WING | Part of an animal studied in ornithology; or, plovers or dragons collectively (4) |
| WINGS | Badge of a qualified pilot; or, flocks of plovers or groups of dragons (5) |
| COCKLES | Bivalve molluscs inhabiting rockpools, estuaries, sandy bays and muddy shores; consumed by humans as a seaside snack and by birds such as oyster catchers (7) |
| AVIARY | Enclosures for birds such as that built for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild at Waddesdon Manor or any of those at Lilford Hall (6) |
| LEK | Small area of ground used for courtship displays by birds such as the black grouse and the bird of p |
| WAGTAIL | Any of various small long-tailed birds such as the Pied ? or Yellow ? (7) |
| WAGTAILS | Sprightly birds such as the pied "Polly dishwashers" that are known collectively as a walk or a volery (8) |
