Possible Clues:

• Pigeonlike bird
• One is soft, affectionate and airy
• Certain wading bird
• The plural, in short, getting finished; it's now all in the air
• The swain sounds so soft as to be finished at last
• For the bird the plural has shortly finished
• A wading bird
• Wading bird, such as a peewit
• No Stranger on the Shore from piano fan!
• One is softly amorous up in the air