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Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Buphagus africanus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCavity nestSmall · 59 g
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 1
Photo: (c) Derek Keats, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 2
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 3
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 4
Photo: Paul Hoekman · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 5
Photo: Edmundas Greimas · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 6
Photo: Edmundas Greimas · CC BY 4.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 7
Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 8
Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 9
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus), photo 10
Photo: Attila Oláh · CC BY 4.0

When to see the Yellow-billed Oxpecker

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 30 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

South Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania Botswana Nigeria Namibia Gambia Zimbabwe Senegal Zambia Rwanda Ghana Gabon Cameroon Angola Congo - Kinshasa Benin Malawi Chad Burkina Faso Congo - Brazzaville Niger Guinea-Bissau Mali Mozambique Central African Republic Mauritania Togo Côte d’Ivoire

Recorded as a rare visitor in Guinea.

About the Yellow-billed Oxpecker

The yellow-billed oxpecker is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family, Sturnidae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythroryncha) Red-billed OxpeckerBuphagus erythrorynchaA juvenile oxpecker is darker brown than its parents.

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Deteema Springs CamHwange National Park, Zimbabwe · Africam

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