Dec 5, 2025
Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorynchus), sitting atop antelopes, family Buphagidae, order Passeriformes, found across parts of Eastern and Southern Africa
Bttm photo: L - adult, R - subadult
photographs by Charles J. Sharp
seen from Türkiye
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from Germany
seen from Australia
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from Australia
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorynchus), sitting atop antelopes, family Buphagidae, order Passeriformes, found across parts of Eastern and Southern Africa
Bttm photo: L - adult, R - subadult
photographs by Charles J. Sharp
Cape buffalo with oxpeckers By: Planet Earth Pictures From: Encyclopedia of the Animal World: Large Plant-Eaters 1988
Southern greater kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros strepsiceros
With oxpecker Buphagus sp.
Observed by robvanepps, CC BY-NC
Muscicapoidea superfamily
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ominous spiritus ah!
real life ornithologist Julian Huxley, and his coworkers.
Red billed oxpecker in its natural habitat: the back of a herbivore.
Tracey Graves
SINWP Photographer of the Year
Red-billed Oxpecker on an Impala - Kruger National Park, South Africa