Usually means: Birds rub ants on feathers.
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  1. anting: Merriam-Webster
  2. anting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. anting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Anting, anting: Wordnik
  6. anting: Wiktionary
  7. anting: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. anting: Dictionary.com
  9. Anting (bird activity), Anting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. anting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. anting: Merriam-Webster

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(Note: See ant as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (anting)

noun:  (ornithology) The practice of some birds of rubbing live ants or occasionally other items into the feathers, possibly as a means of controlling parasites.

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