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Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1848 either of two small dull-colored African birds (Buphagus erythrorhynchus and B. africanus) of the starling family that feed on ticks which they pick from the backs of infested cattle and wild mammals

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Oxpecker Ox"peck`er, n. (Zo["o]l.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga; the beefeater.