Cryptic crossword clue
Jokes about very strong island birds 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PUFFINS

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We know that "birds" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case birds = puffins.
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What does PUFFINS mean?

PUFFINS noun
  1. The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
  2. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
  3. Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.
  4. A puffball.

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