Amimals and Birds quiz

[guilliebrougues]

HI AB's still trying to find out the answers to these last few questions have submitted them , the same questions a few times, but to no avail are people struggling as I am for these last few ?

12. Copratle.
25. Silence before the final appearance.
27. This plucky fellow gains a point.
30 Sounds like hard labour.

any help would be appreciated. thanks.:)
this quiz has to be in by 31st of october.

[guilliebrougues]

just a query really, I have been given an answer a few days ago to number 26, Weighs very little, the answer given was ounce. is there such a bird or animal called this, if not what couldbe the answer? thanks

[KUSTARD]

Could 25 be Mute Swan - silence (mute) and swan song (final app). Any letters Guillie?

[emeritus]

An Ounce is another name for a Snow Leopard

[guilliebrougues]

no Kustard no letters given for any of them just the clues. but mute swan could be a good answer.

[ladyalex]

12 is a kind of dingbat, I think. It's a bird I'd never heard of.
Try anagramming it.

[ladyalex]

Sorry, forget anagramming it, there would be 2 letters missing if you did that. (no12)

[KUSTARD]

Just another thought - 27. Horse? Anagram of hero with S (South point) or is this rubbish?

[ladyalex]

your answer for 27 sounds pretty good to me.

[guilliebrougues]

thank you emeritus for your explanation so number 26 could be right then ounce?

[mazie]

27 Hero + N (north)

[ladyalex]

...but mazie's is better...

[mazie]

Why thank you kind Lady xx

[ladyalex]

You're welcome !

[KUSTARD]

Cannot argue with that. Heron is great (but maybe I helped a little bit LOL!)

[guilliebrougues]

Hi ladyalex tried anagraming it anyway but copratle in an anagram comes up as polecat with an extra letter which is r.

[ladyalex]

It's an anagram of copratle plus another 2 letters.

[guilliebrougues]

Hi ladylex i wonder if there a re too many letters in the clue tried and tried but all I can get is polecat.

[ladyalex]

NO. I keep telling you thre are too few letters in COPRATLE . You need Copratle plus another 2 letters.
Better to think of it as a dingbat, maybe.

[guilliebrougues]

Lady alex this is where I get stuck do not understand dingbats.

[vulcan]

No 30. There is a sandpiper[ arenaria] called a turnstone, a possible answer.