African style photo from Central Europe

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My last weekend trip was to the former military training area of Milovice, now nature reservation.

https://www.google.cz/maps/place/Milovice/@50.2475762,14.8590347,11.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x470bf8041781a621:0xe5040a1c9a48c332!8m2!3d50.2259614!4d14.8886391

There is a project of reintroduction of big hoofed animal. The aim  is to graze the overgrown areas and make steppe biotop. The area is  enclosed with fence, but you can see the animals inside despite the area  is huge.

The animal on the photo is so called auroch.
https://www.rewildingeurope.com/tauros-programme/

Look at the bird sitting on the auroch. It is  The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_starling
It look like in South Africa,  where watched the red-billed oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus)
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klub%C3%A1k_%C4%8Dervenozob%C3%BD
which is relative to starlings.

Hot weather, "big game" and "oxpecker" it was a smell of Africa for a moment.