Does it canoodle with its beak? (9)
I believe the answer is:
spoonbill
'does it canoodle' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'with its beak?' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'its' becomes 'spoon' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'beak?' becomes 'bill' ('bill' can be a synonym of 'beak').
'spoon' put next to 'bill' is 'SPOONBILL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for spoonbill that I've seen before include "Wader" , "Tall wading bird" , "flyer" , "one rarely seen in the UK?" , "Large wading bird" .)