tickbird , auch: tick-bird

It will also take ticks from cattle, and is sometimes called the tickbird.

Better to be a tickbird on the hide of the pachyderm than trampled ignominiously beneath its thundering feet is it?

She has also voiced Tickbird in Tinga Tinga Tales.

Paul built a fire with dry branches while Pankie hovered around her like a tickbird servicing a rhino, trying to clean the worst of the dirt from her with his kerchief (which Paul thought must be a record for pointless exercises.)