| Violet wood hoopoe | |
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| Illustration (above) with black-billed wood hoopoe (below) | |
| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes |
| Family: | Phoeniculidae |
| Genus: | Phoeniculus |
| Species: | P. damarensis |
| 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.
Taxonomy
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. 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.
References
- 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.
- Cooper, Mark I.; Cunningham, Michael; Cherry, Michael I. (July 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.
- du Plessis, Morné A; Simmons, Robert E; Radford, Andrew N (March 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
- Violet wood hoopoe - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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