Green Wood Hoopoe

Green Wood Hoopoe

Taxobox
name = Green Wood Hoopoe
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1


image_width = 225px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Coraciiformes
familia = Phoeniculidae
genus = "Phoeniculus"
species = "P. purpureus"
binomial = "Phoeniculus purpureus"
binomial_authority = (J.F. Miller, 1784)

The Green Wood Hoopoe, "Phoeniculus purpureus", is a large, up to 44cm long, near-passerine tropical bird native to Africa. It is a member of the family Phoeniculidae, the wood hoopoes, and is formerly known as the Red-billed Wood Hoopoe.

The Green Wood Hoopoe is a common resident breeder in the forests and woodlands of most of sub-Saharan Africa. The female lays two to four blue eggs in a tree hole.

This abundant species is a metallic dark green, with a purple back and very long purple tail. It has white markings on the wings and tail sides. It has a long thin curved red bill. Sexes are similar, but immatures have a black bill.

The Green Wood Hoopoe is an insect-eating species. It feeds mainly on the ground, termite mounds, or on tree trunks, and will form flocks outside the breeding season.

This conspicuous bird also advertises its presence with its noisy " Kuk-uk-uk-uk-uk "call.

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the Green Wood Hoopoe is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* "Birds of The Gambia" by Barlow, Wacher and Disley, ISBN 1-873403-32-1

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=986&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
* [http://www.redlist.org/search/details.php?species=47628 IUCN Red List]
* [http://home.tiscali.nl/~jvanderw/gambia02/Green%20Woodhoopoe.jpgPhotograph of a Green Woodhoopoe]


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