Forest Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus castaneiceps) [XC235790]
by Peter Boesman from Bobiri Butterfly Reserve, Ghana (call, creaks, voices)
Forest Wood Hoopoe (Phoeniculus castaneiceps) [XC842383]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Parc National de la for\u00eat de Ta\u00ef (Camp Mangabey area), Ivory Coast (call, flight call)
Subspecies
Taxonomy uncertain. Some aspects of plumage indicate affinities with Phoeniculus, perhaps especially White-headed Woodhoopoe (Phoeniculus bollei), whereas size, bare-part colours and vocalizations are closer to those of Rhinopomastus.
Birds from eastern Zaire, Uganda and western Kenya, described as subspecies adolfifriederici, now considered indistinguishable from brunneiceps.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
castaneiceps (Sharpe, 1871) - Liberia east to Nigeria.
brunneiceps (Sharpe, 1903) - Cameroon, Gabon and Congo through Zaire to Uganda; formerly extreme western Kenya.