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December 16, 2011
Red-Billed Oxpeckers in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Red-Billed Oxpeckers

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Canon EOS 1D Mk IV, 500 f4 & 1.4x III, 1/500 sec, f8, ISO 400

Image taken on March 6, 2011.

This red-billed oxpecker family posed nicely on the back of an impala in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Oxpeckers feed on large mammals, eating parasites like ticks as well as insects infecting wounds.

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Wildlife, Feathers (Foreign), Kruger National Park, South Africa, Africa

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December 16, 2011Red-Billed Oxpeckers in Kruger National Park, South Africa

December 16, 2011
Red-Billed Oxpeckers in Kruger National Park, South Africa