Black-billed Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus somaliensis)

Family
Phoeniculidae (Woodhoopoes)

Size
37 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Ogilvie-Grant, 1901)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry forest. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of].

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (5)...)

Black-billed Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus somaliensis) [XC267018]
by Peter Boesman from Dola Mena-Negele road near Genale river, Ethiopia (call)

Black-billed Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus somaliensis) [XC300539]
by Oscar Campbell from Bishangari area, Lake Langano, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Generally considered to form a superspecies with Green Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus) and Violet Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus damarensis). All sometimes treated as conspecific.

Subspecies abyssinicus has been thought to be a hybrid of subspecies neglectus and subspecies niloticus of Green Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus), but the two species are said to occur sympatrically without apparently interbreeding in parts of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

abyssinicus (Neumann, 1903) - Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
neglectus (Neumann, 1905) - Central Ethiopia.
somaliensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) - South-eastern Ethiopia, western Somalia and north-eastern Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-billed Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus somaliensis) - 10 files

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