Possible Clues:

• Raucous flier
• Canuck, the knife-stealing icon of Vancouver, for one
• *Prying tool
• What might give "caws" for concern for a farmer?
• People also known as the Apsaalooke
• Boast about monarch dropping name
• Cornfield nuisance
• Talk a big game
• Bird that can make tools
• *Clustering (around)