American oxpecker

The American oxpecker (Occasivubuphagus manufactius) is a species of thrush (Turdidae), despite its name, that originally did not exist, but has since been created by SciiFii and introduced throughout both North America and South America to help boost biodiversity and to help control the spread of a wide range of parasitic insects and the ticks (including fever ticks). The American oxpecker is a very small member of the thrush family, growing to be about the size of a house sparrow (Passer domesticus), reaching 16 centimeters (6.3 in) in length and having a mass of 24–39.5 g (0.85–1.39 oz). The American oxpecker is named after the true oxpeckers (Buphagidae) due to being known to perch on large mammals (both wild and domesticated) and reptiles, such as cattle, but water buffalos, bison, sheep, goats, African and Asian anteplopes (not native to the Americas), deer, pronghorns, uintatheres, brontotheres, chalicotheres, tapirs, rhinoceroses, wild horses, domestic horses, anthracs (Anthracotherium amphibious), elephants, scutosaurus, therizinosaurs, oviraptorids, sauropods, hadrosaurs, iguanodonts, small ornithopods, ceratopsids, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, and sometimes humans, primarily eating ticks, small insects, botfly larvae, and other parasites. Unlike true oxpeckers, which evolved because of being parasites themselves (since they eat ticks and insect parasites that already ate and the true oxpeckers being known to drink blood from wounds), American oxpeckers aren't true parasites as they often feed on ticks and insect parasites not on larger animals, so American oxpeckers adapted this as a form of mutualism like how "true" oxpeckers were once to have achieved. The breeding season of the American oxpeckers is linked to the seasonal changes, which affects the activity of their mammalian and reptilian hosts and the tick loads of those hosts. Both courtship and copulation occur on their hosts as well. They nest in holes, usually in trees but sometimes in other types of cavity, including holes in walls. The nests are lined with grasses and often with hair plucked from their hosts and even livestock such as sheep which are usually used. The typical clutch is between five and seven eggs, which are laid in mid-spring and hatch in early summer, the hatchlings are cared for by their mother until fall, when they're nearly fully grown and must fend for themselves. The conservation status of the American oxpecker is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the American oxpecker's wide range and its tolerance to many of the human activities.