Visitors to hide turkey? And timers, we hear (12)

'timers we hear' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'visitors to hide turkey?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'turkey?' could be 'bird' (turkey is a kind of bird) and 'bird' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'watchers' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'and' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?