Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)
Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) - HBW 14, p. 652
French: Piqueboeuf à bec rouge
German: Rotschnabel-Madenhacker
Spanish: Picabueyes Piquirrojo
Taxonomy: Tanagra erythrorhyncha Stanley, 1814, Ethiopia.
Hybrids with B. africanus recorded in Zimbabwe. Birds from R Palala, in N South Africa (E Limpopo Province), described as race caffer, and birds from Panda, in S Mozambique (Inhambane District), as race scotinus, but both considered inseparable from birds in rest of species' range; other proposed races include invictus (Somalia, NE Kenya), angolensis (SE Angola) and bestiarum (S Zimbabwe). Monotypic.
Distribution: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, extreme SE Sudan and N, W & S Somalia S, patchily, to SE DRCongo, Zambia, Malawi, extreme SE Angola, NE Namibia (Caprivi region), N & E Botswana, Zimbabwe, N & E South Africa, Swaziland and S Mozambique.
- Least Concern
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Two birds on a horse Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 November 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 4.3 -
Two birds with zebras Amboseli National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 17 August 2000 8 years ago 25 sec 4.3 -
Three birds on a cow, crossing a wetland Lake Ziway, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 4.1 -
Two birds on a horse, one of them preening Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 November 2005 4 years ago 26 sec 4.1 -
Three birds on a cow, crossing a wetland Lake Ziway, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 4 years ago 24 sec 4 -
A bird on a horse Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 November 2005 4 years ago 23 sec 3.5
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Bird perched on an Impala Kruger National Park, South Africa
Chris and Megan Pe... 22 March 2009 1 year ago 4 -
Two birds on the girafe. Kruger National Park, South Africa
Libor Vaicenbacher 1 October 2009 29 weeks ago 3 -
Two birds on the back of a kudu. Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Fran Trabalon 30 October 2008 31 weeks ago 2.7 -
A bird on a horse. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 24 November 2005 27 weeks ago 2.3 -
Birds in a Ethiopian horse Ashoka, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Juan Gonzalez Vald... 1 November 2009 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 2
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