picorant
-pecking
Present participle of picorer.

picorer

Ne pas êtreétrange de voir un certain flamenco ou le héron picorant le fond d'un sel.
Not to bestrange to see some flamenco or heron pecking the bottom of a salt.
Un rouge-gorge était perché sur le rosier, picorant un cynorrhodon.
A robin sat on the bush, pecking at a rose hip.
Quelques secondes s'écoulent et il revient sur la terre, picorant par ci, sautant par là.
A few seconds later, it comes back to the ground, pecking and jumping around.
Quelques secondes s'écoulent et il revient par terre, picorant par ci, sautant par là.
A few seconds later, it comes back to the ground, pecking and jumping around.
Il y avait beaucoup de bruants des neiges picorant la litière de feuilles.
There were a lot of snowbirds pecking at the leaf litter.
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