While at Los Tarrale Natural Reserve, Guatemala on 9th August 2024, I observed a White-throated Magpie-Jay / Weißkehl-Elsternhäher (Cyanocorax formosus) perching on the back of a ruminating young male White-tailed Deer / Weißwedelhirsch (Odocoileus virginianus). The bird seemed to be picking ectoparasites from the fur and from inside the deer’s ear, with the mammal being totally relaxed. It was clearly not the first time that the deer enjoyed this interaction. Oxpecker-feeling in Central America!
