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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

10,000 Birds

She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. While the conclusion is not an outright damnation of the oxpeckers as the Count Draculas of the avian world, the carefully phrased conclusion does not sound very positive either: “These results suggest that the oxpecker-mammal relationship is more complex than was previously thought.”