Light, flavourless, plucked bird (7)
I believe the answer is:
lantern
'light' is the definition.
(lantern is a kind of light)
'flavourless plucked bird' is the wordplay.
'flavourless' becomes 'bland' ('bland' can be a synonym of 'flavourless').
'plucked' says to take the centre (external letters removed as in plucking feathers).
'bird' becomes 'tern' (tern is a kind of bird**).
The centre of 'bland' is 'lan'.
'lan'+'tern'='LANTERN'
(Other definitions for lantern that I've seen before include "Case for a light, provides pictures when magic" , "Type of lamp" , "Top of lighthouse" , "Light-admitting structure on roof" , "Lamp with protective transparent casing" .)