pecking in English

verb
1
(of a bird) strike or bite something with its beak.
two geese were pecking at some grain
verb

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1. 26 Hens feed by pecking.

2. Geese were pecking around for food.

3. The hens were pecking the grain.

4. The little prisoner was pecking inside his shell .

5. 15 But normally the pecking order works out by itself.

6. Beneath it(Sentencedict.com), two geese were pecking at some grain.

7. 10 The woodpecker's long beak is specially designed for pecking.

8. [Blue suns, green whirlwinds,] [birdbeaks of light pecking open] [pomegranate stars.]

9. Feather pecking can be an enormous problem in all husbandry systems.

10. Bullpen composition Wilson was already due to move up the Bullpen's pecking order

11. This rather unusual pecking instinct seems to ensure constant gratification for the male.

12. A raven had landed on the fish and was pecking out its eye.

13. So they seem to be beautifully suited to pecking grain in one environment.

14. The original use of pecking order referred to the expression of dominance in chickens.

15. Four of them parody the fire brigade, pecking and pulling a piece of bread.

16. To clamber up the pecking order, some people slave away nights and weekends at the office.

17. Middleschoolers, their teachers tell me, are as endearing as chicks just pecking out of their shells.

18. It lives in the dirt, pecking insects out of the muck, consoling itself with its great beauty.

19. What kind of a bride smells like a horse and kisses like a chicken pecking corn?

20. Chickadees establish a dominance hierarchy, or “pecking order,” by which each bird is known to the other according to rank

21. Soon, however, many are projecting their dorsal fins high out of the water and are confidently pecking at their food.

22. There was no sound except for a pigeon burbling to itself in the road, pecking at horse-dung.

23. When you see a bird pecking around in your backyard, it’s using its Beak to probe the ground for food

24. THE fluffy, yellow hatchlings are busily pecking for food in the short grass, totally unaware of a hawk hovering high above.

25. Bantams mixed with standard-sized breeds must fight for their place in the pecking order from the brooder box

26. It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.

27. If all this yelling and judging and pecking at each other doesn't make us family, I don't know what does.

28. 18 Diving at it and pecking it may just be enough to unsettle it as it makes the difficult final climb.

29. Often, the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis.

30. 9 Soon, however, many are projecting their dorsal fins high out of the water and are confidently pecking at their food.

31. He has applied the rules of probability to the typing monkeys, and programmed computers to simulate their pecking of the keys.

32. Clueless Synopsis: Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school’s pecking scale

33. Removing hens or roosters from a flock causes a temporary disruption to this social order until a new pecking order is established.

34. Individual Chickens in a flock will dominate others, establishing a ‘pecking order’, with dominant individuals having priority for access to food and nesting locations.

35. While the shell of an adult box turtle is seldom fractured, the box turtle is still vulnerable to surprise attacks and persistent gnawing or pecking.

36. These creatures have developed a knack for pecking away at Nazca Boobies in search of parasites, ultimately feeding on the blood of these Boobies

37. A Cuttlebone provides your bird with an interactive pecking experience that helps to keep a birdâ  s beak trimmed and healthy

38. For a certain generation, Commie is one of the worst things you could level at someone, perhaps just behind Nazi in the political insult pecking order

39. Great tits are the biggest and Bolshiest members of their family, so they’re higher in the pecking order than other tits at our garden bird feeders

40. Disadvantages of these systems include problems such as pecking, cannibalism, parasitosis, contamination by external agents, high ambient concentrations of dust and ammonia, and difficulty in controlling microbial infections.

41. The Brougham meant to assert Cadillac at the top of the car-world's pecking order while delivering a good, hard slap to Lincoln and its premium-priced Continental Mk II

42. Yet, despite its place in what should be the Beakiest of pecking orders, it’s also as much fun to drive as anything that currently wears an M badge, and considerably more entertaining than

43. Blinders, also known as peepers, are devices fitted to, or through, the beaks of poultry to block their forward vision and assist in the control of feather pecking, cannibalism and sometimes egg-eating

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45. The pigeons are then placed in an operant conditioning chamber and through orienting and exploring the environment of the chamber they discover that by pecking a small disk located on one side of the chamber, food is delivered to them.

46. As Taylor Acquaints us with the pecking order in his school, his parents' conversations and escalating arguments, his struggle with his stammer, his hero worship of his older cousin, the prejudice and ignorance of his adult acquaintances, his first crush and first …

47. Beccafico, bĕk-ā-fē'kō, the Italian name of the small olive-brown garden-warbler (Sylvia hortensis), called in England “pettychaps,” which has the habit of pecking holes in the rind of ripening figs and other fruits, in search of small insects.The damage done is very slight

48. Using this rule of thumb, if Chicken A sees that Chicken B is larger, Chicken A will defer; if Chicken B is smaller, it will defer to Chicken A. In this way, only chickens of similar sizes will fight and the pecking order of the group overall is maintained without requiring individual recognition.

49. As nouns the difference between Beak and bill is that Beak is a rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food while bill is any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an anglo-saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly