Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Yellow-billed oxpeckers are quite common and can be found throughout Africa. These beautiful birds eat the insects and ticks that live on giraffe. They perch on large wild and domesticated mammals such as cattle and eating arthropod parasites. The birds will also perch on antelopes such as wildebeest. All these and many others host the oxpecker or tickbird. An image that I captured during my safari trip to Serengeti National Park,Tanzania,Africa.