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 LC    Yellow-billed Oxpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Buphagus africanus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Yellow-billed Oxpecker, Tickbird

Family
Buphagidae (Oxpeckers)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
Linnaeus, 1766

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

 
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) [XC279889]
     by Rolf A. de By from Mopani area, Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa (call)

 
Yellow-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) [XC61996]
     by Peter Boesman from Kruger NP, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Hybrids with Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorynchus) recorded in Zimbabwe.

Proposed subspecies megarhynchus (described from L Kivu, in eastern DRCongo) and somewhat larger haematophagus (from Andara, on R Okavango, in north-eastern Namibia) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • africanus Linnaeus, 1766   -  South-western Mauritania and Senegal east to west, southern and eastern Sudan, north-western Ethiopia and western Eritrea, also locally south-western Angola (southern from Huí­la) and northern and north-eastern Namibia and, in east, very locally from Uganda and Kenya south to Zambia, Malawi, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, central Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa.
  • langi Chapin, 1921   -  Congo Basin in Gabon, PRCongo, western DRCongo, and western Angola (south to Benguela).



References
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Files:
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