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
These hungry birds can eat hundreds of ticks and up to 12,000 larvae per day.
Group of yellow-billed oxpeckers perch on buffalo
Pesticides meant to eliminate parasites from livestock are often deadly to oxpeckers.