<b>Record number of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers <I>Buphagus africanus</I> Linnaeus, 1766 (Aves: Passeriformes: Buphagidae) foraging on a single host</b>

<b>Record number of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers <I>Buphagus africanus</I> Linnaeus, 1766 (Aves: Passeriformes: Buphagidae) foraging on a single host</b>

<p>In June 2016, we observed a group of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers foraging on a single male Giraffe, in the Savuti area of Chobe National Park, Botswana.  From photographic evidence we estimate the Oxpecker group numbered between 51 and 60, the highest number on record for a single host.</p&g...

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Main Authors: Diogo Verissimo, Jean-Christophe Cugnière, Suzanne Cugnière, Julien Cugnière, Géraldine Cugnière, Laure Cugnière
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Threatened Taxa
Subjects:
Africa
Botswana
Chobe National Park
Giraffe
herbivore
ungulate
Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Online Access:http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/3055

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