Point the damaged tamarinds out - a bird (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
sand martin
'a bird' is the definition.
(sand martin is a kind of bird)
'point the damaged tamarinds out' is the wordplay.
'point' becomes 'n' (North).
'the damaged' indicates an anagram.
'out' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tamarinds' with letters rearranged gives 'sadmartin'.
'n' inserted within 'sadmartin' is 'SAND-MARTIN'.
(Other definitions for sand martin that I've seen before include "Flyer" , "Singer" , "Migratory bird" .)