Violet Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus damarensis)
About the Violet Wood Hoopoe
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. The violet wood hoopoe was formally described in 1901 by the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant under the binomial name Irrisor damarensis. The specific epithet is from Damaraland in Namibia. The violet wood hoopoe is now one of five species placed in the genus Phoeniculus that was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki. Two subspecies are recognised: P. d. damarensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) – Angola and Namibia P. d. granti (Neumann, 1903) – central, southeast Kenya
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Listed as recorded in Namibia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Green Wood HoopoePhoeniculus purpureusrecording
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