Birds Birds Birds

[granny grump]

Must get this off tomorrow can anyone help the following - all contain references to birds As always all help will be very gratefully received

18 - Insider so railed
20 Is this one late?
21 Ageless part of new rage
28 Alternative midwife
35 Greedy person
53 Very dark headgear
55 The sanpa
56 coloured beginning
59 Used to listen to cereal
64 Sharp beak
69 Halcyon
77 throw it heat
78 otis tarda

[coffeeboy]

35 Gannet

[gen2]

56 redstart

[gen2]

69 Kingfisher

[JMR27]

53. black cap

[sarumite]

69 Poetic name for the "Kingfisher"

[sarumite]

78. Great Bustard

[sarumite]

64. Razorbill

[TheWinner]

28 is stork

[gen2]

59 Wheatear

[pugwash53]

20 Dodo ?

[JMR27]

18. insider so RAILed?

[JMR27]

55. pheasant (anagram)

[johnalex]

21. Wren . . . . anag: new + rage - age

[kettledrum]

21. wren

[johnalex]

77. Whitethroat . . . . anag: throw it heat

[granny grump]

Thank you kindly one and all - I couldn't believe it when I saw 15 answers so soon - you really are stars - thank you 1st class tomorow and all done

[granny grump]

Thank you kindly one and all - I couldn't believe it when I saw 15 answers so soon - you really are stars - thank you 1st class tomorow and all done. I know the answers followed some kind of pattern but I couldn't fathom it out

[kettledrum]

I'm not doing this quiz Granny Grump, but from the posts I've seen on this site it would appear that the birds are arranged with the fewest number of letters first. So, 3 letter birds, followed by 4 letter birds, followed by 5 letter birds and so on. Within each group they are arranged aphabetically: this will be useful to you to check if you've got the right answers, and you can have another think if any of them don't fit into this pattern.

[Dimbo]

There is a Sora so you may need to decide if it is Sora or Rail

[crofter]

20 TEAL = anag of "late"