Rossford resident Bill Heban captured this photo of a Great Egret preening at Magee Marsh Wildlife Area.

Maintaining their feathers is essential to a bird’s well being, he explained, and preening is the method they have developed to do so.

“They spend an estimated 30 percent of their day preening, and at rest at least once an hour,” he noted.

During preening, birds remove parasites and realign the ho…