The yellow-billed oxpecker is a passerine bird in the family Buphagidae. It was previously placed in the starling and myna family, Sturnidae.
Image: Flickr Rainbirder Yellow billed Oxpecker (Buphagus africanus)
Image: Yellow billed oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus africanus) on zebra
The red-billed oxpecker is a mutualistic passerine bird in the oxpecker family, Buphagidae. It is native to the eastern savannah of sub-Saharan Africa, from the Central African Republic east to South Sudan and south to northern and eastern South Africa. It is more widespread than the yellow-billed oxpecker in Southern Africa, where their ranges overlap.
Red-billed oxpecker
Clutch in a nest lined with impala hair, Kenya
Perched on an impala ewe
adult (L) sub-adult (R) on impala