This is not recommended since it doesn't address the real reason why the bird is picking feathers.

No bird would pick that chorus just at this moment!

The bird picked delicately at the seed I'd poured into its feedtray.

And finally the black birds picked at the bones of what was left, which was not much.

While he plays, a lot of people getting killed are shown in several ways and a bird is picking body parts.

A bird must have picked it up and dropped it here.

Now two lovely blue birds, with crests on their heads, are picking about within a stone's-throw.

The birds picked at the soft tissues of the faces first.

By the third day the birds had picked the flesh from his father's skull so that it grinned at the sky with empty eye-sockets.

After his tee shot landed on the green, a bird picked up Fabel's ball and flew away.