💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Vent pecking"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| peckernoun | Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly: |
| pterotillomanianoun | A behavioural disorder in birds in which a bird plucks out its own feathers, or plucks the feathers of its chicks. |
| impingnoun | A practice used on birds to fix important broken feathers. |
| gapesnoun | A fit of yawning. |
| groundpeckernoun | A species of bird in the tit family Paridae, Pseudopodoces humilis. |
| woodpecknoun | Obsolete form of woodpecker. [Any bird of species-rich family Picidae, with a strong pointed beak suitable for pecking holes in wood.] |
| peepernoun | (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) The eye. |
| brood patchnoun | A patch of featherless skin that is visible on the underside of birds during the nesting season, helping them to transfer heat to their eggs when incubating. |
| eporniticnoun | An outbreak of disease in a bird population. |
| egglayingnoun | The laying of eggs |
| beaknoun | (anatomy) A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. |
| speckled-bellynoun | The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) |
| hacklenoun | (usually now in the plural) One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster. |
| scaly legsnoun | A poultry disease affecting the legs. |
| poulardnoun | (countable) A young spayed hen (that is fattened for eating). |
| birdnestingnoun | The act or process of collecting bird eggs. |
| peahennoun | A female peafowl. |
| peepnoun | A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one. |
| pea combnoun | A type of comb having pea-shaped lumps, found in various breeds of domesticated chicken. |
| beak and feather diseasenoun | A viral disease that harms the feather follicles and the beak and claw matrices of the infected bird. |
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