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Oxpeckers Gathering on Buffalo, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) gather to feed on ticks on the back of an African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The yellow-billed oxpecker can eat 100 ticks or 13,000 larvae per day. The oxpecker prefers to feed on blood and harvest ticks because they are often engorged with blood, though they will occasionally pick at wounds on mammals, including buffalo and zebra, to feed on their blood.

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Yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) gather to feed on ticks on the back of an African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The yellow-billed oxpecker can eat 100 ticks or 13,000 larvae per day. The oxpecker prefers to feed on blood and harvest ticks because they are often engorged with blood, though they will occasionally pick at wounds on mammals, including buffalo and zebra, to feed on their blood.
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