Possible Clues:

• Bird publication on food
• Spectator, perhaps, on endless attraction of Brighton winger
• Mother picks up a good tart with the bird
• Pied bird
• This bird married a doctor - one with bearing
• The thieving bird
• A thieving black and white bird
• Rossini's 'The Thieving ___'
• A doctor, one introduced to me and chatty bird
• Black and white bird - a thief