A brown African bird related to the starlings, feeding on parasites that infest the skins of large grazing mammals.
牛椋鸟
Genus Buphagus, family Sturnidae (or Buphagidae): two species
Example sentencesExamples
I have been involved with redbilled oxpeckers since 1996, when the project to bring them into our area started.
We were on our second day, descended a hill when we spotted four redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino, busily probing folds of skin, ears and even nostrils for ticks, their primary food source.
Then of course there were redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino and de-ticking as only oxpeckers know how.
Clouds of oxpeckers chirp above the buffalo, while cattle egrets, a series of white splashes, rise and fall at their feet.
The red-billed oxpecker keeps ticks and other vermin from the skin.
Definition of oxpecker in US English:
oxpecker
nounˈäksˌpekər
A brown African bird related to the starlings, feeding on parasites that infest the skins of large grazing mammals.
牛椋鸟
Genus Buphagus, family Sturnidae (or Buphagidae): two species
Example sentencesExamples
Clouds of oxpeckers chirp above the buffalo, while cattle egrets, a series of white splashes, rise and fall at their feet.
We were on our second day, descended a hill when we spotted four redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino, busily probing folds of skin, ears and even nostrils for ticks, their primary food source.
The red-billed oxpecker keeps ticks and other vermin from the skin.
I have been involved with redbilled oxpeckers since 1996, when the project to bring them into our area started.
Then of course there were redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino and de-ticking as only oxpeckers know how.