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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Africa
• Botswana
• Chobe National Park
• Giraffe
• herbivore
• ungulate
• Yellow-billed Oxpecker