Editing Oxpecker (section)

==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Buphagus'' was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] with the [[yellow-billed oxpecker]] as the [[type species]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés | language=fr, la | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | at=[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36010430 Volume 1, p. 32]; [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36011768 Volume 2, p. 436] }}</ref> The name comes from [[Ancient Greek]] βοῦς (''boûs''), meaning "ox", and φάγος (''phágos''), meaning "eater".<ref name=hbwkey>{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/buphagus | access-date=11 May 2018 }}</ref>

According to the more recent studies of [[Muscicapoidea]] [[phylogeny]], the oxpeckers are an ancient line related to [[Mimidae]] (mockingbirds and thrashers) and starlings but not particularly close to either.<ref name="Cibois">{{cite journal|last1=Cibois|first1=A.|last2=Cracraft |first2=J.|year=2004 | title=Assessing the passerine 'tapestry': phylogenetic relationships of the Muscicapoidea inferred from nuclear DNA sequences|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=32|issue=1|pages=264–273| doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2003.12.002|pmid=15186812 }}</ref><ref name="Zuccon">{{cite journal|last1=Zuccon|first1=Dario|last2=Cibois |first2=Anne |last3=Pasquet |first3=Eric |last4=Ericson |first4=Per G.P.|year=2006|title=Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal the major lineages of starlings, mynas and related taxa|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=41|issue=2|pages=333–344| doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.007 |pmid=16806992|bibcode=2006MolPE..41..333Z }}</ref><ref name=lovette>{{ cite journal | last1=Lovette | first1= I.J. | last2=Rubenstein | first2=D.R. | year=2007 | title=A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=44 | issue= 3 | pages=1031–1056 | doi= 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.03.017 | pmid=17502157| bibcode= 2007MolPE..44.1031L }}</ref> Considering the known [[biogeography]] of these groups, the most plausible explanation seems that the oxpecker lineage originated in Eastern or Southeastern Asia like the other two.<ref name="Zuccon"/> This would make the two species of ''Buphagus'' something like [[living fossil]]s, and demonstrates that such remnants of past [[evolution]] can possess striking and unique [[autapomorph]]ic adaptations.

The genus contains two species:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/nuthatch/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=11 May 2018 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus=Buphagus  |authority-name=[[Mathurin Jacques Brisson|Brisson]]|authority-year= 1760 |species-count=two|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

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|name=Yellow-billed oxpecker|binomial=[[Buphagus africanus]]
|image=File:Yellow-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus africanus) on zebra.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus|authority-year= 1766|authority-not-original=
|range= most of sub-Saharan Africa
|range-image=File:Buphagus africanus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| ''B. a.'' subsp. ''africanus'' <small>Linnaeus, 1766</small> 
| ''B. a.'' subsp. ''langi'' <small>[[James Chapin|Chapin]], 1921</small> 
}}
}}

{{Species table/row
|name=Red-billed oxpecker|binomial=[[Buphagus erythrorynchus]]
|image=File:Red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorynchus) adult (L) sub-adult (R) on impala.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Stanley|authority-year= 1814|authority-not-original=yes
|range= mainly east Africa
|range-image=File:Buphagus erythrorhynchus map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
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{{Species table/end}}