red-billed oxpecker
buphagus erythrorhynchus latin

The preferred habitat is open country, and the Red-billed Oxpecker eats insects.

The Red-billed Oxpecker nests in tree holes lined with hair plucked from livestock.

The typical clutch is between two to three eggs, but the Red-billed Oxpecker may lay up to five eggs.

He scientifically describes the Striped Kingfisher and the Red-billed Oxpecker.

It is least common in the extreme east of its range where it overlaps with the Red-billed Oxpecker, despite always dominating that species when feeding.

With scissor-like movements of the beak, the red-billed oxpecker combs their hosts' hair in search of ticks.

Red-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus of east Africa.

The Red-billed Oxpecker has plain brown upperparts and head, buff underparts and a pale rump.

Red-billed Oxpecker - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Like most black rhinos, they were believed to have been nearsighted, and would often rely on local birds, such as the red-billed oxpecker, to help them detect incoming threats.

The Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the oxpeckers to be in a family by themselves, the Buphagidae.

Red-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorhynchus of east Africa.

The Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the oxpeckers to be in a family by themselves, the Buphagidae.