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]
Taxonomy
[edit]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.[3] 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.[4]
Two subspecies are recognised:[4]
- P. d. damarensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) – Angola and Namibia
- P. d. granti (Neumann, 1903) – central, southeast Kenya
The subspecies P. d. granti has sometimes been considered as a separate species as its distribution is separated by a very large distance from that of the nominate race.[4][5]
The violet wood hoopoe was formerly considered to be conspecific with the green wood hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus).[6][7][8][9] It has been argued that the violet wood hoopoe should be considered as a distinct species because of its more terrestrial foraging behaviour compared to the more arboreal foraging of the green wood hoopoe.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phoeniculus damarensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22682673A92955974. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22682673A92955974.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Cooper, Mark; Sewell, Brian; Jaffer, Mohamed (2019-03-20). "Iridescence of Violet Woodhoopoe Mantle Feathers". Biodiversity Observations. 10. doi:10.15641/bo.v10i0.504. ISSN 2219-0341.
- ^ Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert (1901). "Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant gave the following review of the genus Irrisor". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 12: 36-38 [37-38].
- ^ a b c Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ^ Ligon, J.D.; Kirwan, G.M. (2020). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Violet Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus damarensis), version 1.0". Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1945). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 251.
- ^ Ligon, J.D. (2001). "Family Phoeniculidae (Woodhoopoes)". In del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 6: Mousebirds to Hornbills. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 412–435 [429]. ISBN 978-84-87334-30-6.
- ^ Cooper, M.I.; Cunningham, M.; Cherry, M.I. (2001). "Taxonomic status of the Namibian violet woodhoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis as determined by mitochondrial DNA". Ibis. 143 (3): 572–579. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2001.tb04884.x.
- ^ Cunningham, Michael; Cherry, Michael I. (2005). "Seeing the woodhoopoe for the trees: a response to Simmons et al. (2005)". Ibis. 147 (1): 225–227. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00397.x.
- ^ du Plessis, Morné A; Simmons, Robert E; Radford, Andrew N (2007). "Behavioural ecology of the Namibian Violet Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus damarensis". Ostrich. 78 (1): 1–5. doi:10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.1.1.45.
External links
[edit]- Violet wood hoopoe - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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