| WOODCOCK | Secretive forest bird, related to the snipe (8) |
| REDSHANK | Wading bird of the snipe family (8) |
| BOHEMIAN | ___ waxwing, fruit-eating forest bird of Eurasia and North America (8) |
| HAWFINCH | With a large beak powerful enough to crush a cherry or olive stone, a waxwing-like bird related to the evening grosbeak (8) |
| NIGHTJAR | European nonpasserine insect-feeding bird related to the swift (8) |
| TITMOUSE | *Bird related to the chickadee |
| OXPECKER | African bird related to the starling |
| BITTERNS | Wading birds related to the heron, noted for their booming calls (8) |
| 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 |
| RODENT | Word, from "fly homeward in the evening", for the regular dusk or dawn flight of the "snipe of the woods" (6) |
| TURKEY | Large forest bird of the Americas, in the genus Galliformes (6) |
| MOTMOT | This bird is any of about 10 species of long-tailed forest birds of the family Momotidae (order Coraciiformes) of Central and South America. They lay their eggs in a chamber at the end of a burrow dug |
| QUETZAL | Neotropical forest bird of the trogon family (7) |
| AVOCET | Cousin ot the snipe |
| BULBUL | Forest bird of Africa and Asia - the collared finchbill or yellow-throated leaflove, for example (6) |
| DEANMARTIN | Forest bird a famed warbler |
| PITTA | Brilliant, small, Asian forest bird |
| SILVER | ___ pheasant, forest bird found in SouthEast Asia (6) |
| MACAW | Colorful rain forest bird |
| CAGE | "A forest bird never wants a ___": Ibsen |
