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

Bird name: Yellow Billed Oxpecker
Latin: Buphagus africanus
Other:
Family: Buphagidae • Oxpeckers

These Yellow-billed Oxpeckers are picking ticks off an Eland in the Serengeti in Tanzania.

The Yellow-billed Oxpecker can be differentiated from the Red-billed Oxpecker by the yellow base to its bill. It lives in a wide band of sub-Saharan Africa.More photos...

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

Bird name: Red Billed Oxpecker
Latin: Buphagus erythrorhynchus
Other:
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.More photos...

206 Buphagidae - Oxpeckers - Were Sturnidae - now sisters to starlings (Mimidae) and mockingbirds (Mimidae)

Buphagus africanus - Yellow-billed Oxpecker - Widespread Africa
Buphagus erythrorhynchus - Red-billed Oxpecker - E, S Africa