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Red-Billed Oxpeckers

Red-Billed Oxpecker - The Hall of Einar - photograph © David Bailey (not the)

The Rhino’s Guard – the Red-Billed Oxpecker

The Red-Billed Oxpecker’s scientific name is Buphagus erythrorynchus. Bu means Ox, phagus means eat, erythro means red and rhynchus means nose. They …