Red Billed Oxpecker

Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy without permission • Lake Nakuru, Oct 2009

Bird name: Red Billed Oxpecker
Latin: Buphagus erythrorhynchus
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Family: Buphagidae • Oxpeckers

Red-billed Oxpeckers picking ticks off White Rhino at Lake Nakuru in Kenya.

Red-billed Oxpeckers live in East Africa.

Oxpeckers have been classed in Sturnidae, the Starlings, in the past, but here are placed in their own family the Buphagidae.