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December 16, 2013
Red-Billed Oxpecker in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Red-Billed Oxpecker

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Canon EOS 1D X, 500 f4 & 1.4x III, 1/1000 sec, f5.6, ISO 320

Image taken on March 22, 2013.

Oxpeckers and mammals have a symbiotic relationship. The birds remove and then eat parasites from mid-sized to large mammals and there are cleaning stations where they assemble to carry out the exchange. At one such cleaning station in Kruger National Park, I photographed these two red-billed oxpecker attending a young female impala.

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

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December 16, 2013, 2:26 PM
by Gordon

That is a cool bird!

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Red-Billed Oxpecker in Kruger National Park, South Africa