LETS LEARN ABOUT BIRDS TODAY.
RED-BILLED OXPECKER [BUPHAGUS ERYTHRORYNCHUS]
1. Their tail feathers are stiff, which acts as a support structure while they grip onto their hosts' bodies.
2. Their diet consists of ticks, flies, worms and lice that they extracting using a scissoring motion. They are also known to eat earwax positively affects the birds digestion.
3.An adult red-billed ox pecker can consume up to 1000 juice tics or over 10000 larvae in a single day.
4. The birds often let out high-pitched warning signal when predators are nearby, alerting their hosts to the potential danger.
5. While these birds are friends to most of the wildlife, mammals such as elephants, hartebeest, and waterbuck cant stand to have these tick birds hanging on them.
6. Their nests are lined with hair plucked from their animal hosts that is placed on grass in cavities of dead trees. Cracks in the wall of cavity are sealed with dung from their hosts. Only the dominant pair incubates the eggs, but the others in the group known us the 'helpers' [offspring from previous broods] help to feed the brood and remove tell-tale signs of the nest like eggs shells and fecal sacs.
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