Possible Clues:

• A mixed drink as appetiser
• A clock: it could be represented as old-fashioned in America
• Clock at one perhaps - have a drink
• Tom Collins or Rob Roy
• Martini for example, putting bird on back!
• Tip back Bloody Mary?
• End of bird at poet's party
• Bird with excellent record in provocative 2 3
• A mixed alcoholic drink
• Screwdriver, e.g.