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Common Name

Red Billed Oxpecker

Alternate Names

Common Type

Oxpecker

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Buphagidae

Genus

Buphagus

Species

erythrorynchus

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Location Photographed

Red Billed Oxpecker Zimbabwe,

Number of Sub-Species

0

Migratory or Resident

Resident

Preferred Habitat

Savannah

Distribution and Range

Sub Sahara Africa from Central African Republic east to South Sudan

Food

Insects and tics while perched on the bodies of large mammals. Will also eat blood from these animals after pecking at their wounds until blood flows.

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