BIRDS of THE WORLD - An Online Bird Book
BUCEROTIFORMES
BUCEROTIFORMES
The order Bucerotiformes contains the hornbills, hoopoe and woodhoopoes.
Genus Phoeniculus
Woodhoopoe,_Black-billed Phoeniculus somaliensis Found: east Africa
The Black-billed Woodhoopoe has mainly black plumage with purple gloss; row of white dots on flight feathers; black bill.
Similar to: Green Woodhoopoe. Black-billed Woodhoopoe has black bill; Green Woodhoopoe has red bill.
Image by: 1) Herbert_Goodchild 2) Nik_Borrow - EthiopiaSimilar to: Green Woodhoopoe. Black-billed Woodhoopoe has black bill; Green Woodhoopoe has red bill.
Woodhoopoe,_Forest Phoeniculus castaneiceps Found: Africa
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Nik_Borrow - Uganda
WoodHoopoe,_Green also Green Wood Hoopee Phoeniculus purpureus Found: Africa
The Green Woodhoopoe has metallic dark green plumage with purple back; long white-marked tail; long curved red bill.
Similar to: Black-billed Woodhoopoe. Black-billed Woodhoopoe has black bill; Green Woodhoopoe has red bill.
Image by: 1) Dick Daniels - North Carolina Zoo 2, 3, 4) Dick - San Diego Zoo 5) Kevin O'Grady - Ghana 6) Derek_Keats - South Africa 7) Jerry_Oldenettel - NamibiaSimilar to: Black-billed Woodhoopoe. Black-billed Woodhoopoe has black bill; Green Woodhoopoe has red bill.
Woodhoopoe,_Violet Phoeniculus damarensis Found: Angola, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania
Image by: 1) Herbert_Goodchild 2) Ian_White - Angola 3) Jerry_Oldenettel - Namibia
Woodhoopoe,_White-headed Phoeniculus bollei Found: Africa
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Antti_Seelaff
Genus Rhinopomastus
They are smaller than most woodhoopoes and their bills are strongly curved like a scimitar, giving them their name. They are mostly glossy black in colour with a few white markings on the wings. While other woodhoopoes are gregarious birds which gather in flocks, the scimitarbills are usually seen alone or in pairs.
Scimitar-bill,_Abyssinian Rhinopomastus minor Found: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
Image by: 1) Peter_Steward
Scimitar-bill,_Black Rhinopomastus aterrimus Found: Africa
Image by: 1) Francesco_Veronesi - Gambia
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Scimitar-bill,_Common Rhinopomastus cyanomelas Found: Africa
Image by: 1) Yathin_Krishnappa 2) Steve_Garvie 3) Ian_White - Zimbabwe 4) Lip_kee - Botswana
1) Juvenile
Genus Upupa - 1 species
Hoopoe also Eurasain Hoopoe Upupa epops Found: Europe, Asia, Africa
The Hoopoe has a long thing bill with fawn base; black-and-white lower back and wings; impressive creast. The call is oop-oop-opp from which comes the name.
The African Hoopoe is now considered to be a subspecies, U. e. africana, not a separated species.
Image by: 1) Imran_Shah - Pakistan 2) Dick Daniels - Fish Eagle Lodge, Knysna Lagoon 3) J.
M. Garg The African Hoopoe is now considered to be a subspecies, U. e. africana, not a separated species.
4) Dick near Kruger National Park, South Africa 5) Charlie Westerinen - Cambodia 6) Andy_Morffew - Hungary
Hoopoe,_Madagascar Upupa marginata Found: Madagascar
The Madagascar Hoopoe is very similar to the Upupa epops Hoopoe and is consider by some to be a subspecies. It does have different vocalizations.
Image by: 1) David Cook 2) Pat and Keith Taylor - Ankarafantsika National Park 3) Alan_Harper 4) Jerry_Oldenettel
