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31/08/2015 What's the Birdie?

Each of the 15 pictures shows a bird native to Britain.  Above the pictures is a list of 15 cryptic references to the name of each of these birds (labelled ‘A’ to ‘O’).

Name each bird and then link each name to the correct cryptic reference.

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A: Fitzgerald’s 1925 hero

C: Fleming’s Jamaican home

E: Gresley’s world record holder

G: Paul Heaton

I: David Puttnam

K: Spitfire oomph

M: 1940s Vera Lynn song

O: Meredith poem set to music

B: Skipper = Brendon McCullum

D: Walkers’ marine transport

F: Mel Blanc

H: Jodie Foster

J: Forest/Arsenal/Köln

L: Dickensian dolls’ dressmaker

N: 1949 Worzel Gummidge first

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