Talk:Red-billed oxpecker

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Drinking milk?[edit]

(Just an fyi, this message was copied and pasted from a message I made on Talk:Milk, but the situation is more or less the same since it regards the same information from the same source.)

I doubt the veracity of the claim that red-billed oxpeckers drink the milk of impalas. The source seems to be a children's science website, and while the webpage does cite sources, none of them mention the oxpecker from what I could see, and I don't know if the website can really be considered a reliable source. Additionally, these papers on the red-billed oxpecker's feeding habits don't mention them drinking milk, which I would expect them to if the birds did. I EAT PINBALLS (talk) 20:14, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]