Possible Clues:

• Bird with modern date reflected on old one with bumpkin
• Dick Bach’s unusual bird
• Little European grebe
• Private eye covering alphabet initially hopes to get a flyer
• Little bird caught by peasant after severe upset
• Rise for poor peasant ringing about aquatic bird
• Waterbird depositing fish on head of country bumpkin
• Fish caught by hillbilly — one at home in the water
• Water bird — little grebe
• It's easy to follow duke with one uncultured diver