All Creatures great and small

[bloater]

(Answers are creatures of the land, sea or sky and a few fictitious)

1. The winner will be the one with a prize brain
2. Whilst at Trinity, applied for the Diplomatic Service
3. Cat all at sea? Lost one of its nine lives.
4. The bird is sorry it doesn't start
5. This creature's jaws bite and its claws snatch
6. This bird has some crest.
7. Perhaps it declined and fell.
8. The Queen matches them

[johnalex]

4. (r) Egret

[Jumbuck]

4 egret
5 jabberwock
6 partridge

[gen2]

1. ZEBRA (hidden in clue)

[Jumbuck]

3 kittiwake

[slaney]

5. Jabberwock - Lewis Carroll - "The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! "

[Jumbuck]

7 gibbon ? Edward Gibbon wrote "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

[patnlcc]

am doing this quiz! still need answers for nmbrs 2 and 8