Possible Clues:

• Plumage provider
• Bird often in water, say, needing to soak
• A predatory bird some Tuareg retreat from
• Plumed flier
• Kind of heron to greet
• Great or snowy, e.g.
• Bird, mainly green, fluttering to tree-top? It's white!
• Weep over headless bird
• A bird found in most regrettable condition
• Water-bird, has plume