"Pecking" refers to the act of quickly striking or tapping with a beak, usually done by birds to grab or eat something.
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And when we rest our two big hitters, I think Danny knows his place, no3
in pecking order at least until Perez returns or Nkeitiah / Mavididi / Nelson matures, because after two seasons time I can't see Danny getting any game - time.
Doesn't sound too important when you speak about him, the squad needs players at the bottom
of pecking order, so that's why I don't complain about him much.
Over the years we've seen horses that predict weather by stomping hooves, pigeons that predict the stock market by
pecking on stock listings, etc..
Your old standby bar graphs and pie charts are just the tip of the iceberg — it's not uncommon now to see executives and professionals of all stripes working on visuals instead of hunkering down at the keyboard for a long session of
pecking away in Word.
It's the natural, normal way that dogs
establish pecking order, he says, even if they have been spayed or neutered.
You can also find «preening» toys, which
birds peck at and groom, and cuddle toys.
When it comes to the incline hammer strength machine, which has been specifically designed to help you achieve complete contraction of the upper chest muscles, one of the coolest benefits it offers is the ability to adjust the height of the seat and attack your upper
pecks from angles you can't achieve on other inclines.
Traffic school in
Pecks Mill West Virginia can be completed online in the comfort of your home.
A modern - style file explorer app would save touchscreen Windows users, including all Windows RT users, from having to suffer the tedium of
pecking through the desktop file explorer.
This is even observable in the animal world; sometimes when a bird encounters a rival, they don't fight or flee, they
just peck at the ground.
According to Dr. Jennifer Rooke — Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, «Cattle no longer feed on grass and chickens do
not peck in the dirt on factory farms.
In turn, how is a
social pecking order established through this process?
Show your affection by making regular physical contact, like holding her hand, giving her a
quick peck on the cheek or putting your arm around her.
Snowy plovers are primarily visual foragers, using the run - stop -
peck method of feeding.
She pointed to four hens and a rooster who were
pecking around in my yard and asked,» ok?
I am grateful for another day to
keep pecking away at always present list.
Raheem Sterling and Andros Townsend had gotten ahead of Walcott in the England
starting pecking order when Walcott was sidelined with that long injury.
He now trains his chest once or twice per week with
peck decks, dips and incline presses, keeping the reps in the 6 - 12 range and working up in weight and down in reps for three sets.
The fact is, in its own small way it's trying to find its rank within the
new pecking order of your family.
A signing that surprised many has seemingly failed and the Gunners boss is keen to offload the 27 year old South Korean at the earliest possibly juncture, not least because the former Monaco man is now even further down the
Arsenal pecking order following the arrivals of Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud.
And I don't mean a
little peck on the cheek, I mean a good, long, passionate kiss.
It is documenting in unprecedented detail tens of thousands of figurines (the original «pitoti») that were
pecked into rock faces in the valley of Val Camonica, in northern Italy, between 10,000 and 2000 years ago.
Some theories say the animals would smash their heads together to
determine pecking order.»
As you rush out the door in the morning, you and your mate typically give each other a quick
peck before parting ways, right?
Pitoti artists used chisels to make tiny
peck marks on the rock, thousands of which were lined up for the final effect.
Despite some who've said unflattering things about this latest green flagship's design — the new look evolving the Prius» triangle wedge with Mirai overtones stands to carry forth its legacy atop the alternative energy
car pecking order.
The
judicial pecking order does not permit little peckers to overrule big peckers.
However, while there is a
clear pecking order in the cast list, it is true that every actors gets a moment to shine.
There are third - party options you can try that are one - hand friendly, such as Microsoft's Word Flow for iOS; it lays out the letters in an arc, which can help
make pecking out messages more comfortable.
However, the Daily Mirror believe the former FC Porto man could fall down the
defensive pecking order under new boss Rafa Benitez.
Regardless of age, M.O.D.O.K.
getting pecked in the face by chickens is pretty funny to watch.
I'm talking about the word - zombies who sit in front of a keyboard for inhuman lengths of
time pecking away at the keys as they brain - dump huge tracts of lies they call novels.
Wall paintings depict violent stories from Greek mythology, such as the story of Prometheus: a large bird
pecks out a man's liver (there's blood on the beak and the man's abdomen), a man plucks out his eyes (we see blood spurting), a woman slaughters her two children, and a man kills his three children.
Fritz Lang's «Scarlet Street» (Kino) is one of his greatest films, a beautifully tawdry noir melodrama of sour lives and curdled fantasies, with Edward G. Robinson as a hen -
pecked husband who becomes obsessed with scheming, shallow streetwalker Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea as a vicious pimp who plots to take Robinson for everything he has.
«What you would really like, of course, is to mark flocks of hens that are at risk to develop
feather pecking as early as possible, so preferably before they even move to the laying farm.»
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The old world order, which includes not just the
global pecking status of nations and economies but the things that people do in their daily lives, is quickly being overturned.
Alas it is futile never - the-less we persist because like the
pigeon pecking for a food pellet the random reward as we observe it serves to reinforce our belief.
Despite being one of the only natural left - backs in the squad, Shaw has not impressed enough to get past Ashley Young in the first -
team pecking order.
Richards has fallen behind the likes of Glen Johnson and Kyle Walker in the
England pecking order [GETTY]
The story narrated by a dog features Jim Crow as a bird
who pecks at people.