Possible Clues:

• Champion new flyer
• Has she long legs on her?
• Bird's name attached to priestess of Aphrodite
• Leading man (a Pole) gets the bird
• Wading bird, rook, and duck surrounded by other fowl
• Large British wading bird
• Long-necked wader
• That woman is playing a large bird
• Great blue, e.g.
• It flies with the female aboard