My pet bird blog: Harley, a Timneh African Grey; Cinnamon the Spice finch; Ginger the Society/Spice hybrid; and Peanut, a green-rumped parrotlet who died in 2006.
Birds spend a large part of their day preening. Here are a few pictures of Peanut preening himself. Because he's the only parrotlet around, and I'm too big to help him out much, he has a hard time getting his face (here's a picture, or just scroll down to March 9). The fourth photo below shows some of the contortions he goes through to scratch at the feathers on his face.