Passeriformes

Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)

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• Medium-sized passerines with heavy, laterally flattened bill; plumage dull brownish and buff, with contrastingly bright eye wattle and bill.
• Africa.
• Savanna and farmland with large ungulates.
• 1 genus, 2 species, 3 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.