What is the name of the bird that picks the crocodile's teeth?

Toothpick bird, also known as Egyptian Thousand Birds, is a medium-sized bird, similar in size, and mainly eats various insects. Worms and other aquatic animals.

Toothpick chickens are precocious, and soon after hatching, they will walk for food by themselves. However, parents will protect them. If they are in danger or their parents go out for a short time, in this case, they will hide under a small sand pile and stay motionless for protection. They often cool down under their parents' wet abdominal feathers.

Feeding mode of toothpick birds;

Monogamy, living in groups or nesting in isolation, strong sense of territory, will take the initiative to guard. The nesting area is usually built on an island covered with gravel, and the nest is simply dug out of a small depression and leveled with mud or sand. Without any cover, exposed to direct sunlight. Each nest lays 1-4 khaki mottled eggs, which begin to hatch after spawning.

This is a very special species, males and females hatch alternately. If one of the partners abandons the nest without approval, it will bury the egg in the sand with its beak. Hatched adult birds will regularly wet their abdominal feathers every few minutes to regulate the temperature of brooding and avoid boiling eggs at noon. It will be partially covered at night.