💬 Should conservation come at the cost of communities?
🔁 Share to demand answers

#Oxpeckers #WildlifeConflict #EnvironmentalJustice #FMDCrisis

🎨 The letter ‘O’
🐦 Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorynchus)
📏 19 cm
📍 1: Liwonde National Park, Malawi 🇲🇼
📅 Apr 2019
📍 2: Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 🇿🇦
📅 Dec 2022

#birds #oxpeckers

Red-billed oxpeckers working over an impala. Kruger National Park, South Africa. #oxpeckers #birds #birders #krugernationalpark #southafrica

#ThrowbackThursday! Let's revisit some critical Oxpeckers investigations on environmental crime & resource issues in Africa. Follow this thread for highlights! #TBT #InvestigativeJournalism #Oxpeckers

Naturally these ox-peckers are hanging around purely for the conversation – a tick wouldn’t dare feed off a unicorn. It would be impolite.

#junicorn #junicorn2025 #unicorns #unicornart #oxpeckers #antelope #unicornlore #illustration #art #fantasyart #fantasyanimals #mythicalcreatures

🌍 Red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorynchus) The red-billed oxpecker is a medium-sized passerine bird with olive-brown plumage, a bright red bill, and striking red eyes often encircled by yellow skin. It is distributed across the open savannas of sub-Saharan Africa, where it maintains a close relationship with large wild and domesticated mammals. They feed by climbing over these hosts, primarily consuming ticks, dead skin, and blood from wounds. Highly social, they form chattering flocks, roosting together at night and dispersing during the day to find hosts, often acting as an alarm system against predators. Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) 📷: Photo by butti_s via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/africa-maggot-hackers-bird-beak-7605285/ BQXH

🌍 Red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorynchus) #AfricanBirds | #RedBilledOxpecker #BuphagusErythrorynchus | #Oxpeckers #OxpeckerFamily #PerchingBirds 📷: Photo by butti_s🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

Red-billed #Oxpeckers hitching a ride on a #Giraffe while feeding on various parasites/ticks.

#birds #birdsofbsky #birdsofAfrica #wildlife #AfricanWildlife #wildlifephotography #AfricaWildlife #nature

Red billed Oxpeckers at Rosie's Pan/SA, Africam
#birds, #Oxpeckers, #nature, #webcams, #Africam

#oxpecker #oxpeckers #picabueyes #Buphagus #safaris #viajespersonalizados #viajesamedida #safarisamedida #safariamedida #kruger #sabanafricana #parasitos #birds #birdsofinstagram #birding #pajaros #birdsofSA #birdsofsouthafrica #sudafrica #avesdesudafrica #avesdeafrica #safarienafrica #avesdelmundo