Open Access<b>Record number of Yellow-billed Oxpeckers <I>Buphagus africanus</I> Linnaeus, 1766 (Aves: Passeriformes: Buphagidae) foraging on a single host</b>
Author(s) -
Diogo Veríssimo,
Jean-Christophe Cugnière,
Suzanne Cugnière,
Julien Cugnière,
Géraldine Cugnière,
Laure Cugnière
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of threatened taxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 0974-7907
pISSN - 0974-7893
DOI - 10.11609/jott.3055.9.1.9768-9770
Subject(s) - foraging , national park , host (biology) , biology , zoology , geography , ecology
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.