Possible Clues:

• Bird
• Shoot involves celebrated flyer
• With sun going in, shoot bird
• Bird damaged on a road
• Old plane nearly late — the cause of serious bird strike?
• Bird is damaged lying on a road
• The great ____, a chalk downland bird in southern England, became extinct in 1832, and was reintroduced on Salisbury Plain in 2003
• Long-legged swift-running bird
• Shoot involves celebrated bird
• Flyer's transport almost late