Church Quiz Has Me Puzzled!

[tarasmum]

The answers are birds or waterfowl. Please can you help?

1. Boast
2.See this at night with the heather
3.Judge's headgear, maybe
4.Sounds fishy
5.Almost a criminal
6.A digger
7.Corn husks with a measurement
8.It's not very smooth

Thank you, Tarasmum

[cashier]

1 Crow

[Neveracrossword]

1 Crow

[Neveracrossword]

2 Starling - Star+Ling, heather.

[Neveracrossword]

8 Ruff?

[scorpiojo]

2 star ling (heather)

[cashier]

2 Starling

[emeritus]

8 ruff

[scorpiojo]

6 shoveller

[scorpiojo]

3 black cap

[fiction-factory]

8 ruff

[scorpiojo]

7 chaff inch

[Toorak]

5 (c)rook

[tarasmum]

You are all so clever, thank you so much! I cannot make all of you best answer so thank you Cashier, Neveracrossword, scorpiojo, emeritus, fiction-factory and Toorak!
Tarasmum