Kruger NP, South Africa, August (1 Viewer)

I'm adding photos from past trips to my Lightroom catalogue, giving me a reason to re-visit them. Found this bird on the back of a rhino in two pictures - I certainly didn't notice it at the time, nor since - the rhino was the subject.

I think the only species of birds I saw on the back of mammals are red-billed oxpeckers, Burchell's glossy starlings, and cattle egrets (the latter not on this trip).

I appreciate the pictures are awful (extremely heavy crops), but can anybody give a suggestion for this one?

Thanks,

Andrea

Wattled Starling. Another species that often follows large mammals

A juvenile, I take it? They're not illustrated in my Sinclair et al. I thought it looked like a starling, but couldn't make any of the illustrations fit.

Thanks, Will.

Andrea