Green Wood Hoopoe
Phoeniculus purpureus
Taxonomy
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Phoeniculidae
- Genus
- Phoeniculus
- eBird Code
- grewoo2
Vocalizations
Subspecies (6)
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Phoeniculus purpureus angolensis
Angola to western Zambia, western Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Botswana
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Phoeniculus purpureus guineensis
Senegambia to northern Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, and Central African Republic
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Phoeniculus purpureus marwitzi
eastern Uganda and Kenya to central and eastern KwaZulu-Natal; 2 records Somalia
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Phoeniculus purpureus niloticus
Sudan to western Ethiopia and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Phoeniculus purpureus purpureus
South Africa (eastern Western Cape to southern and central KwaZulu-Natal)
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Phoeniculus purpureus senegalensis
southern Senegal and Gambia to southern Ghana
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.