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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

1.

2.

Goldcrest - I

Goldcrest was the name of Puttnam’s film production company

Swallow - D

The Walkers were the family of children in Swallows and Amazons who sailed the Swallow dinghy

4.

Merlin - K      

Rolls Royce Merlin engines powered the WW2 Spitfire planes

Nightingale - M

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

6.

Lark - O

The Lark Ascending – a poem by George Meredith set to music by Vaughan Williams

Goldeneye - C

Goldeneye was the name of Ian Fleming’s estate on Jamaica (as well as the title of one of the Bond films)

8.

Woodcock - J

Tony Woodcock was an English footballer who played for these clubs

Mallard - E

The railway steam engine Mallard, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, holds the world steam engine speed record

10.

Jay - A

Jay Gatsby was the main character in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book The Great Gatsby

Puffin - N

In 1949 Worzel Gummidge was the first Puffin book for children published

12.

Blackcap - B  

Brendon McCullum is captain of the current (i.e. in 2015) NZ cricket team nicknamed the Blackcaps

Starling - H

Foster plays Clarice Starling in the film The Silence of the Lambs

14.

House martin - G

Paul Heaton was lead singer with The Housemartins

Woodpecker - F

Mel Blanc was the voice of Woody Woodpecker in the early cartoon films

Wren - L

Jenny Wren was a dolls’ dressmaker in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend