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Red-billed Oxpecker
Buphagus erythrorynchus (Stanley, 1814)
Buphagidae — Oxpeckers
Red-billed Oxpecker, Buphagus erythrorynchus, is a bird of the savanna in sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from the Central African Republic and South Sudan through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia to Botswana, Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa. In Southern Africa it occurs more widely than the yellow-billed oxpecker, and their ranges meet there. It is a passerine in the oxpecker family. Its name reflects its red bill, and it is known for living alongside large mammals, including cattle and rhinoceros.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Buphagidae — Oxpeckers
- Breeding range
- Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia to ne Namibia, Botswana and ne South Africa
