yellow-billed oxpecker
buphagus africanus latin

Its range overlaps that of the less widespread Yellow-billed Oxpecker.

The bill is red, and adults have a yellow eyering, both clear distinctions from the related Yellow-billed Oxpecker.

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

The Yellow-billed Oxpecker eats insects and ticks.

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

Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus africanus of most of sub-Saharan Africa.

The Yellow-billed Oxpecker is 20 cm long and has plain brown upperparts and head, buff underparts and a pale rump.

The Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the Oxpeckers to be a separate family, the Buphagidae (Zuccon, 2006).

Shaba is also home to regionally-threatened birds that include the sporadically visiting African Darter and Great Egret and the resident White-headed Vulture, Martial Eagle and Yellow-billed Oxpecker, the last of which is fairly common.

Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus africanus of most of sub-Saharan Africa.

The Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the starling and myna family Sturnidae; some ornithologists regard the Oxpeckers to be a separate family, the Buphagidae (Zuccon, 2006).