Possible Clues:

• See sprain affected winger
• Go over lake keeping north like some birds
• Winger's progress taking English past Ireland
• 'Start to go by Ireland for birds for purchase like this, by the sound of it (9)'
• Like the majority of birds, with feet for perching
• Go by Ireland to the East for purchase, by the sound of it
• Bird to proceed over Ireland and England initially
• Perhaps sound purchase for this sort of bird
• Description of bird group: snipes are out!
• Sort of bird unfashionable outside Ireland