Possible Clues:

• One will stoop for food
• Clan of (anag) — raptor
• Bird entrails, but not of rook
• Bird in brief dive, gull
• Raptor that can fly 240 miles per hour while diving
• The Maltese ---, classic film noir
• Bird of prey (John Houston directed one in Malta)
• Robert -- Scott, Antarctic explorer
• Golfer swaps one party for another to make birdie?
• Its peregrine variety is the world's fastest avian