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northern English dialect preen meaning "pierce" or "pin", due to the "pricking" action of the bird's beak during preening. Preening is a maintenance behaviour...

Look up preen or preening in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Preen may refer to: Preening, personal grooming of a bird's feathers especially by using...

properties of preen wax. A bird will typically transfer preen oil to its body during preening by rubbing its beak and head against the gland opening and...

Hayley Preen (born 28 May 1998) is a South African racing cyclist, former equestrian and triathlete, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental...

grooming Black swan preening Peregrine falcon preening its feathers A house sparrow cleans itself in moving water while a mallard preens in the background...

Church Preen is a dispersed hamlet and small civil parish in central Shropshire, England. The county town of Shropshire is Shrewsbury, which is located...

Preens Eddy is a hamlet in the Telford and Wrekin district of Shropshire, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Severn, opposite Coalport. Preens...

Alan Thomas Preen (4 July 1935 – 27 November 2016) was a sportsman who played Australian rules football with East Fremantle in the WANFL and first-class...

John Preen (born 15 March 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong in the Victorian Football League (now known as the Australian...

Garyn Vernon Preen (born 25 October 1991) is a Welsh footballer who plays as a winger for RTB Ebbw Vale. Preen began his career as a youth player with...

feathers for preening, which gives a soft and silky feel to their plumage. They have no preen gland or at times have very rudimentary preen glands, so oil...

posthumous novel. Kitchin was gay and lived with his lover Clive Bertram Preen until Preen's death in 1944. Kitchin’s first publications were poetry and in the...

eating, manipulating and carrying objects, killing prey, or fighting), preening, courtship, and feeding young. The terms beak and rostrum are also used...

of a duck directly around the preen gland (uropygial gland); they are very buoyant due to preen oil produced by the preen gland. They are used when tying...

to groom, even though this takes longer than traditional beak methods. Preening is important to remove ectoparasites and spread oil across the feathers...

physical condition of feathers are maintained by preening often with the application of secretions from the preen gland. Birds also bathe in water or dust themselves...

from the side of the bill and traps any food. The pecten is also used to preen feathers and to hold slippery food items. Diving ducks and sea ducks forage...

used for budgerigars, because of their habit of close perching, mutual preening, and their long term pair-bonds. The budgerigar was first described by...

supposedly to stop them from poisoning themselves by ingesting the oil during preening, and to keep them warm, since the spilled oil destroys their natural oils...

One preening itself...