Violet wood hoopoe | |
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Illustration (above) with black-billed wood hoopoe (below) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Bucerotiformes |
Family: | Phoeniculidae |
Genus: | Phoeniculus |
Species: | P. damarensis
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Binomial name | |
Phoeniculus damarensis (
Ogilvie-Grant, 1901)
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General range: the Angolan mopane woodlands |
The violet wood hoopoe (Phoeniculus damarensis) is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is found in Angola, Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania. It looks similar to the black-billed wood hoopoe but with a red beak and a green throat. It has coppery and violet mantle feathers. [2]
Grant's wood hoopoe (P. d. granti) is sometimes considered a full species. Due to genetic similarities in mitochondrial DNA analysis between the Violet Woodhoopoe and the Green Woodhoopoe, some believe the Violet Woodhoopoe is not a separate species from the Green Woodhoopoe. [3] However, some scholars suggest the Violet Woodhoopoe is indeed its own species, based on different foraging patterns attributed to its more terrestrial foraging juxtaposed to the Green Woodhoopoe's arboreal foraging. [4]
Violet wood hoopoe | |
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Illustration (above) with black-billed wood hoopoe (below) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Bucerotiformes |
Family: | Phoeniculidae |
Genus: | Phoeniculus |
Species: | P. damarensis
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Binomial name | |
Phoeniculus damarensis (
Ogilvie-Grant, 1901)
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General range: the Angolan mopane woodlands |
The violet wood hoopoe (Phoeniculus damarensis) is a species of bird in the family Phoeniculidae. It is found in Angola, Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania. It looks similar to the black-billed wood hoopoe but with a red beak and a green throat. It has coppery and violet mantle feathers. [2]
Grant's wood hoopoe (P. d. granti) is sometimes considered a full species. Due to genetic similarities in mitochondrial DNA analysis between the Violet Woodhoopoe and the Green Woodhoopoe, some believe the Violet Woodhoopoe is not a separate species from the Green Woodhoopoe. [3] However, some scholars suggest the Violet Woodhoopoe is indeed its own species, based on different foraging patterns attributed to its more terrestrial foraging juxtaposed to the Green Woodhoopoe's arboreal foraging. [4]