pecking

But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks.

Always pecking at new things are the Bandar-log.

This rabbit dead, the Abbé Adelmonte has its entrails taken out by his cook and thrown on the dunghill; on this dunghill is a hen, who, pecking these intestines, is in her turn taken ill, and dies next day.