The oxpeckers everyday life
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The oxpecker eats ticks off the giraffe. The hair of the animal is used to line the birds nest.They lay 2 or 3 eggs in their nest in holes or the hollows of trees and use hair plucked from the host to line their nest. Open country is a habitat of chose for these gregarious, insect eating birds. Oxpeckers perch on large mammals, wild and domestic, and eat parasites, such as ticks and botfly larva, which lodge in mammalian skin.