Food is taken mainly from the ground and even in shallow water where the bird will hover and pluck food items out of the water with its feet.

Hot on his heels ran the boar and his family of wild pigs, while the birds pecked and plucked at Maggie's hair.

The curious bird usually plucked at the beads down the sleeve or the leather thongs at the end, but now he pulled the sleeve itself.

"Now Now" The bird walked up the old man's arm to his chest, and plucked a hair from his beard.

Broody birds often pluck feathers from their chest and abdomen, using them to cover the eggs.

Occasionally, young birds pluck their feathers during the winter.

A quaint custom this, of having birds pluck cards and deliver them to customers, so that each could read an individual fortune.

He was thick and red, and if he caught a bird would pluck it alive and make it run about bare.

The birds evaded the lances with a trained skill and plucked the defenders from under their hopeless shelters, like robins pulling worms out of the ground.

Jon, Heln, get the fire started and the bird plucked.