COVER STORY: OXPECKERS
OME time ago, I wrote an article about the importance of birds (see , March 4 2020). In that article, I briefly touched on their importance in the control of pests; whether this was in an integrated pest-management system in agriculture, or in the wild environment. Now, since I spend a great deal of my time in the bush, I pick up the inevitable tick along the way. As I was trying to photograph some oxpeckers on the back of a wildebeest, it got me thinking even more about the
