Snipes is claustrophobic because, being a small bird, he's used to wide open spaces to fly in. Being stuck in a small, enclosed space would, naturally, be terrifying for him.
Snipes is a magpie. It's believed magpies are omens of good luck or bad luck. If you remember the rhyme about magpies, one magpie alone is not good luck. It's no wonder Edmond and his friends run into obstacles every now and again during their journey. And maybe, unwittingly, Snipe wasn't too far off the mark when he said "I'm just holding you back, see ya, bye".
It takes a while to get the pun, but after the song "I wanna Rock", the bodyguards actually sing their "I Am" Song: they are "bouncers".
Also, it explains why they are disproportionately big for amphibians. As bouncers, it's a popular stereotype to make them bigger and stronger than most people. So by bodyguard standards, they're just the right size for their job.
Listen to their "I Am" Song: there's a touch of organ playing in their song. Who else plays the organ? The Grand Duke of Owls. This hints that their boss Pinky is in cahoots with the Duke.
Our Big Bad of the movie being a Duke fits the royalty motif when you consider that Chanticleer is "the King".
There's initially a sad, but small reason that Chanticleer left the farm because his voice didn't bring up the sun as a huge ego-shattering event. One of his song's lyrics states that his father taught him how to sing to raise the sun with the implication that this gift has gone back several generations. So when the sun rises up without him and the farm mocks him for being an apparent fraud, they're also dragging the legacy of his ancestors through the mud by also stating that he comes from a family of charlatans, coming to believe everything his father told him was a lie- when in actuality, his gift was genuine. This adds another layer of how despicable the Grand Duke's actions were by making the rooster doubt his entire history.
When Edmond and the gang are tied up in the trailer and Hunch breaks in to try to kill them, we see a tiger skin rug. Heck, Hunch even gets bitten by it. Now, a tiger skin rug would be perfectly normal if this wasn't a city inhabited by animals. Think about that for a moment.
If you think about it, the tiger skin acts as vague proof that Pinky will make good on his word to harm Edmond and his companions if Chanteclare doesn't cooperate.
Notice Hunch's thin, bare, pink neck. He's supposed to be a pygmy owl, right? Pygmy owls - heck, no owl has a thin neck like that. That neck of his most likely used to have feathers covering it. It's made quite obvious that the Duke hates Hunch and abuses him. So, how do you think Hunch lost all those feathers?
There's also a scene in which Hunch is singing a song, and finishes with "most of all, Mom... I miss you". It may be just a song, but considering that the Duke is his uncle, who's willing to bet the Duke killed his sister/sister-in-law (depending on how Hunch is related to him) for some reason?
The Grand Duke utilizes a magic Breath Weapon that does very unnatural things such as Forced Transformation amongst other Reality Warper type powers. The other owls, including Hunch, don't display such powers, so it's something that only the Grand Duke has either learned or acquired naturally. How did he get these powers, or more importantly, what or who taught him those powers or bestowed them onto him? And whether or not they're still around, being potentially more dangerous than the Duke or someone who learns these same arts to trouble the heroes in the far future and be even more dangerous- maybe even Hunch for instance. Suddenly, the Happy ending isn't so happy anymore.
