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Rhea, for example, bird on a headland (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

titaness

'rhea for example' is the definition.
(rhea is a kind of Titaness)

'bird on a headland' is the wordplay.
'bird' becomes 'tit' (tit is a kind of bird**).
'on' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'headland' becomes 'ness' (I've seen this before).
'tit'+'a'+'ness'='TITANESS'

(Other definitions for titaness that I've seen before include "Giant goddess" , "Phoebe, say" , "big girl" , "A huge woman" , "Giant woman" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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