Yellow-billed Oxpecker
Photo: Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland · CC BY-SA 2.0

Oxpeckers

Yellow-billed Oxpecker

Buphagus africanus

LCLeast Concern
Family
Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The yellow-billed oxpecker (Buphagus africanus) is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family, Sturnidae.
It is native to the savannah of Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal east to Sudan. It is least common in the extreme east of its range where it overlaps with the red-billed oxpecker, despite always dominating that species when feeding.

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Last updated September 29, 2026.