Usage of "preening in birds"

Maintenance behaviour of birds.

Synonyms

Examples for "preening"

Sometimes asking a question is less about curiosity and more about preening. 
 BBC 

The others are dim, feeble little things preening themselves in reflected glory. 
 West Wind Drift 

Robyn is in the bathroom, preening, cooling down from our fight earlier. 
 The whore of babylon, a memoir 

Emma's sisters couldn't stop themselves from preening a bit as he passed. 
 The devil wears plaid 

Bobbie sat down at the risk of spoiling some of her preening. 
 Jane Allen, Junior 

Even wild kakapos are known to approach, climb on, and preen people. 
 Wired 

Carefully, he began to preen, pulling out some feathers and smoothing others. 
 Secrets of the Wolves 

He said you'd pine and you'd preen, and how very right he was. 
 Imajica: Complete Edition 

There were many store-windows to preen before, as in a mirror. 
 Half a Rogue 

Birds came there to drink and bathe and preen and dress their feathers. 
 The Shuttle 

The regiment fluttered like a bird preening its plumage and became motionless. 
 War and Peace 

Even to Commander Raffleton himself it looked as if the great wings were quivering, like the outstretched pinions of a bird preening itself before flight. 
 Malvina of Brittany 

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Meanings of preening in birds in English