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1 Highly venomous snake with a distinctive ‘hood’ (5) 4Quail- like bird of Asia and Africa that might be painted, scaly or handsome (9) 9 Freshwater bird common in the UK, with a yellow-and-red bill (7) 10 Gathered in large numbers, like honeybees or locusts (7) 11Desert water-source (5) 13 The ___ martin builds a nest of mud under the eaves of buildings (5) 15 Flat-bodied cartilaginous fish (3) 16 Male mouflon or bighorn (3) 17 Juicy berry of a vine (5) 19 Large, semi-aquatic rodent (5) 21 Immature eel (5) 23 Life ___ ___, 2002 memoir by Sir David Attenborough (2, 3) 24 ___ weaver spiders make circular, wheel-like webs (3) 25 Bird of the order Strigiformes (3) 26 The excrement of seabirds (5) 28Asian evergreen of the Piperaceae family of plants (5) 29 Large-billed Neotropical birds (7) 31 The Birds of ___ is a famous work by John James Audubon (7) 33 Name given to various predatory fish, such as the blacktip or whitetip (4, 5) 34 Small, bushy New Zealand tree of the violet family (5)

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1 Herb with a bitter taste, also known as herb-of-grace (6, 3) 2 Flower, especially of a stone-fruit tree such as peach or cherry (7) 3 Tree, common in the UK, with distinctive black leaf-buds (3) 4 Seed-eating songbird (5) 5 Another name for a wild equid (3) 6The spotted ___, Porzana porzana, is a waterbird related to the water rail (5) 7 See 30 8 Tropical seabird (5) 12 Substance derived from grasses of the genus Saccharum (5) 14 Genus of tropical and subtropical plants, such as caesarweed (5) 18Type of oyster cultivated for the production of pearls (5) 19 Hummingbird, native to the Caribbean (from which it takes its name) (5) 20 Of a plant, having flower clusters in which stalks spring from a centre (9) 22 Scavenging bird of prey (7) 24 The largest bird species (7) 25 Agile semi-aquatic carnivore (5) 26 The ___ snake is a Eurasian species that feeds mainly on amphibians (5) 27 ___ National Forest in northern Arkansas is home to black bears (5) 30/7Jawless marine fish, Petromyzon marinus, of the Atlantic Ocean (3, 7) 32 Tree ravaged by microfungus (33)