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Common Name

Yellow Billed Oxpecker

Alternate Names

Common Type

Oxpecker

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Buphagidae

Genus

Buphagus

Species

africanus

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Location Photographed

Uganda, Red Billed Oxpecker Zimbabwe,

Number of Sub-Species

Two Sub Species

Migratory or Resident

Resident

Preferred Habitat

Savannah

Distribution and Range

Sub Sahara Africa from Senegal east to Sedan

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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