Green Wood Hoopoe / Phoeniculus purpureus
Green Wood Hoopoe bird information | Values |
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Conservation status | LC - Least concern |
Synonyms | Kakelaar, Red-billed Hoopoe, Kakalaar, Green Woodhoopoe, Senegal Woodhoopoe, Red-billed Woodhoopoe, Red-billed Wood-hoopoe, Redbilled Woodhoopoe, Green Wood-hoopoe, Red-billed Wood Hoopoe |
Old latin name for bird | Upupa erythrorhynchos, Promerops purpureus, Upupa erythrorhynchus, Phoeniculus erythrorhynchus |
Order | Hornbills and relatives / Bucerotiformes |
Family | Wood Hoopoes / Phoeniculidae |
Genus | Phoeniculus |
Breeding region | Africa |
Breeding subregion | widespread |
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Related species

Grant's Wood Hoopoe

Black-billed Wood Hoopoe

Forest Wood Hoopoe

Violet Wood Hoopoe

White-headed Wood Hoopoe
Where to see Green Wood Hoopoe
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Green Wood Hoopoe subspecies (6)
Subspecies | Breeding subregion | Nonbreeding subregion | Extinct |
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Phoeniculus purpureus angolensis | Angola and w Zambia to ne Namibia and n Botswana | - | No |
Phoeniculus purpureus guineensis | n Senegal and Gambia to Chad and Central African Republic | - | No |
Phoeniculus purpureus marwitzi | e Uganda and Kenya to e South Africa | - | No |
Phoeniculus purpureus niloticus | Sudan to w Ethiopia and ne DR Congo | - | No |
Phoeniculus purpureus purpureus | c, sw South Africa | - | No |
Phoeniculus purpureus senegalensis | s Senegal to s Ghana | - | No |
Translation
Language | Translation |
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Afrikaans | Gewone Kakelaar (Rooibekkakelaar), Gewone Kakelaar , Rooibekkakelaar |
Azerbaijani | yaşıl meşə şanapipiyi |
Bulgarian | Червеноклюн дървесен папуняк |
Catalan | puput arbòria verda, Puput dels arbres verd |
Chinese | 绿林戴胜 |
Chinese (Traditional) | 綠林戴勝 |
Croatian | zeleni pupavac |
Czech | dudkovec stromový |
Danish | Purpurskovhærfugl |
Dutch | Groene Boomhop, Groene Kakelaar |
Esperanto | Verda fenikulo |
Estonian | rohe-tääknokk (kakelaar), Rohe-tääknokk |
Finnish | vihersäihkyjä |
French | Moqueur d'Afrique, Irrisor moqueur, Moqueur |
Frisian | Griene keakelder |
Galician | Zombeteiro purpúreo |
German | Baumhopf, Steppenbaumhopf, Grünbaumhopf |
Hungarian | piroscsőrű kúszóbanka |
Icelandic | Skógarkappi |
Italian | Upupa boschereccia verde, Upupa arboricola purpurea |
Japanese | ミドリモリヤツガシラ |
Kazakh | жасыл ағаш бәбісегі |
Latvian | Zaļais mežapupuķis |
Lithuanian | žaliasis kopikinis kukutis |
Norwegian | Grønnkakelar, grønnkakelar |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Grønkakelar |
Polish | sierpodudek purpurowy |
Portuguese | Zombeteiro de bico vermelho, zombeteiro-de-bico-vermelho |
Russian | Пестрохвостый древесный удод, красноклювый удод, Зелёный лесной удод, Кукушечьехвостый удод |
Serbian | Zeleni šumski pupavac |
Shona | Haya |
Slovak | Leskláč červenozobý, lesklác purpurový, leskláč purpurový |
Spanish | Abubilla arbórea verde, Abubilla-arbórea Verde |
Swahili | Goregore Kijani |
Swedish | grön skratthärfågel |
Tatar | күке койрыклы һөдһөд |
Tsonga | Yokoywana |
Tswana | Foofoo |
Turkish | Yeşil Ağaç İbibiği, Yesil ağaç ibibiği, Yeşil ağaç ibibiği |
Ukrainian | слотняк пурпуровий |
Welsh | Copog goed werdd |
Xhosa | Intlekibafazi |
Zulu | iNhlekabafazi |