Oxpecker Animal Pictures

Buphagus erythrorhyncus & Buphagus africanus

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Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Oxpecker
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These hungry birds can eat hundreds of ticks and up to 12,000 larvae per day.

Group of yellow-billed oxpeckers perch on buffalo

Oxpecker
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Pesticides meant to eliminate parasites from livestock are often deadly to oxpeckers.

Birds that eat ticks: Oxpecker
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