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

Authors

  • Diogo Verissimo Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, VA 22030, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3519-6782
  • Jean-Christophe Cugnière 52 Rue de la Briqueterie, 51100 Reims, France, 6 Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4804-8121
  • Suzanne Cugnière 52 Rue de la Briqueterie, 51100 Reims, France, 6 Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2296-9504
  • Julien Cugnière 52 Rue de la Briqueterie, 51100 Reims, France, 6 Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-4223
  • Géraldine Cugnière 52 Rue de la Briqueterie, 51100 Reims, France, 6 Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2052-8430
  • Laure Cugnière 52 Rue de la Briqueterie, 51100 Reims, France, 6 Society for Conservation Biology, Washington, D.C. 20005, USA http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4753-593X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3055.9.1.9768-9770

Keywords:

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

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.

 

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26-01-2017

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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

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