Oxpeckers

What are they?

What do they eat?

Where do they live?

They feed off larger mammals such as cattle to get the tics and lice in their fur. An adult will take nearly 100 engorged female Boophilus ticks, or more than 12,000 larvae in a day.

The red-billed oxpecker nests in tree holes lined with hair plucked from their hosts (livestock).
They are from the Central African Republic east to Sudan and south to northern and eastern South Africa.

They are a type of passerine bird in the starling and myna family