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

Oxpecker

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

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Group of yellow-billed oxpeckers perch on buffalo

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

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Oxpecker - Photo 3

Birds that eat ticks: Oxpecker
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Shutterstock ID: 1730357719, Photographer: Henk Bogaard

Impala female standing on the savanna with red billed oxpecker on her head in Kruger National Park in South Africa

Impala female standing on the savanna with red billed oxpecker on her head in Kruger National Park in South Africa.

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