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 Green Wood Hoopoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Green Wood Hoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus, is a wood hoopoe.
Wood hoopoes are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found only in Africa.
The Green Wood Hoopoe is a common resident breeder in the forests and woodlands of most of sub-Saharan Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Wood_Hoopoe   (191 words)

  
 Woodhoopoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The woodhoopoes are related to the kingfishers, rollers and hoopoe.
However, they differ in that they have metallic plumage, often blue, green or purple, and lack an erectile crest.
They are more gregarious than the Hoopoe, and can often be seen in small groups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoeniculidae   (121 words)

  
 Green Wood Hoopoe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Green Wood Hoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus, is a (Tropical African bird having metallic flish plumage but no crest) wood hoopoe.
The Green Wood Hoopoe is a common resident breeder in the forests and woodlands of most of sub- (The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa) Saharan Africa.
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 Medieval Bestiary : Introduction
The way the young of the hoopoe care for their elderly parents shows how human children should care for theirs.
The bestiary manuscripts were usually illustrated, sometimes lavishly, as for example in the Harley Bestiary and the Aberdeen Bestiary; the pictures served as a "visual language" for the illiterate public, who knew the stories - preachers used them in sermons - and would remember the moral teaching when they saw the beast depicted.
They appeared not only in bestiaries but in manuscripts of all kinds; in churches and monasteries, carved in stone both inside and out, and in wood on misericords and on other decorated furniture; painted on walls and worked into mosaics; and woven into tapestries.
bestiary.ca /intro.htm   (1843 words)

  
 Diary of The Gambia, 1995
Green Wood Hoopoe 4 flew over our room whilst we were sat outside; big birds with very long, graduated tails and long, curved bills.
The other species of Wood Hoopoe (Lesser or Black) was never seen, but is apparently smaller with less (or no?) white in the wings.
These were the commonest woodpecker, and identified by the combination of a plain green back with a red rump and red crown.
www.bubo.org /trips/gambia01_dly.htm   (10177 words)

  
 Hoopoe - Green Wood Hoopoe stamps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hoopoe, common name for a large, colorful bird with a distinctive fan-shaped head crest.
Hoopoe, © Graham Catley 2001, present at Barton from October 23rd to November 2nd 1999.
The Hoopoe Lark is a resident bird that breeds in flat desert, The following photos of the Hoopoe Lark were taken at Sulaibikhat Bay on 23/10/2003.
www.link-submit.com /lsm/hoopoe.html   (236 words)

  
 * Hoopoe - (Animals): Definition
The hoopoe is the sole member of its family, the Upupidae.
The Hoopoe is the "lapwing" of the Old Testament.
It is a comical bird, with a shaggy crest and it also played a key role in a segment of James A. Mitchner's The Source.
en.mimi.hu /animals/hoopoe.html   (148 words)

  
 Green Wood-hoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus
The commonest of the Wood-hoopoes which, despite the name, generally looks more blue than green.
It looks, especially when seen in the shade, a lot like some of the other wood hoopoes particularly the Black-billed Wood-hoopoe and the Violet Wood-hoopoe.
The Black-billed fortunately lives only in the North-East where the Green Wood-hoopoe is absent; the Violet Wood-hoopoe's range does overlap and they're very difficult to distinguish.
www.kenyabirds.org.uk /g_whoopoe.htm   (202 words)

  
 Field Guide > Hoepoes, Hornbills & Mousebirds > Green (Red-billed) Wood-hoopoe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Green Wood-hoepoe is a striking blue-green bird with white flashes on the wing and tail.
The overall plumage colour is a blue-green metallic fl, with the mantled and back brighter green and other areas more blue-fl.
It has white patches in the wing, which are visible when perched, and white patches on the outer feathers of the long tail - which are visible in flight.
www.birdlife.org.za /fieldguide/book/species_info.cfm?id=54   (359 words)

  
 fajara
When working the golf course itself, access should be free, although someone might ask for money which it is not actually necessary to pay.
The only tip is to keep off the browns (ie greens).
The hotel end entrance for a walk is just beyond the car park used by the green taxis.
www.birdseen.co.uk /gambia/fajara.htm   (173 words)

  
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Back in the wooded depths a bit further on we came across a group of four African Paradise Flycatchers, one male had a splendid tail – all showed very well and didn't seem bothered by our presence as they moved past busily feeding.
Next stop, possibly at Brikama, just after we spotted a Hoopoe, was caused by the appearance of a raptor sitting in a lone tree in the middle of a field.
Next we found Bruce's Green Pigeon, always a nice bird to see, then Pete B found a small bird in a tree which he said was very yellow.
www.birdfinders.co.uk /text-only/gambia2002.txt   (12551 words)

  
 www.ghana.co.uk - travel
In the Keta-Angaw lagoon basin important wetlands are a special breeding ground for migratory birds, as are the wetlands towards the eastern part of Accra, while the sandbanks of the Volta estuary are visited by rare Hawksbill, Leatherback and Green Turtles to lay their eggs.
Much of the north of Ghana is broad wooded savannah, still home to many plains game.
Mole National Park is our largest national park (4840km²) is home to buck, such as duiker, antelopes, kob and hartebeest, leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo and many small primates.
www.ghana.co.uk /travel/travelling/Natural_ghana.htm   (485 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Animals in the Bible
Furthermore, that the Palestinian fauna is not now as rich as it used to be during the Biblical times, must not be wondered at; the land, now bare, was then well wooded, especially on the hills east of the Jordan; hence the changes.
Although no regular classification is to be sought for in the Bible, it is easy to see, however, that the animal creation is there practically divided into four classes, according to the four different modes of locomotion; among the animals, some walk, others fly, many are essentially swimmers, several crawl on the ground.
Jerome explains that they were wild beings, denizens of deserts and woods, with a hooked nose, a horned forehead, and goat feet.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01517a.htm   (10567 words)

  
 TheExperiment - The United Nations Is Concerned About Globalization!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Meanwhile the Turkana tribe of Kenya plan crop planting around an intimate knowledge of the behaviour of frogs and birds, such as the ground hornbill, green wood hoopoe, spotted eagle owl and nightjar, which are revered as "prophets of rain".
The research, edited by Professor Darrell Addison Posey of the Federal University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, Brazil, and the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society at Mansfield College, University of Oxford, in Britain, claims many indigenous languages and cultures are already teetering on the brink of extinction in the face of globalization.
They prepare paste from the wood of the tree Pterocarpus soyauxii mixed with the fragments of animal bone, ash and greasy cabbage palm butter as a skin ointment.
www.theexperiment.org /articles_printer.php?news_id=1155   (2324 words)

  
 Surfbirds Birding Trip Report: The Gambia - March 7th-21st 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The green Tourist taxis were still the most expensive by a street: we split one with 3 other birders to get to Abuko and back and were charged 370 Ds (In March 2002, the exchange rate was 25 dalasi to the pound).
Some of the more regular species we encountered included green wood-hoopoe, splendid and beautiful sunbirds, fl-billed wood dove, bearded barbet, senegal parrot, bronze manikin, yellow-billed shrike, little bee-eater, brown and fl-cap babblers, grey woodpecker, red-billed hornbill, double-spurred francolin and blue-bellied roller.
Bruce's Green Pigeon - 2 at Mandina Ba and 2 at Faraba Banta.
www.surfbirds.com /trip_report.php?id=53   (4872 words)

  
 BBC News | SCI/TECH | UN warns over indigenous tongues
BBC Environment correspondent Tim Hirsch says a clear example of the importance of this link can be found in the case of the indigenous Turkana people in north-west Kenya.
Their language holds vital secrets about the environment in which they live - the Turkana plan their crop planting around the behaviour of birds such as the ground hornbill and green wood hoopoe, which they revere as prophets of rain.
The report was prepared by hundreds of academics on behalf of the United Nations Environment Programme, and delivered to a major international conference in the Kenya capital, Nairobi.
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 Birding safaris in Uganda,Bird wacthing in Uganda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Purlpe throated cuckoo shrike, Nahan's francolin, Forest wood hoopoe, Green tailed bristlebill, Joyful greenbul, Tit hylia, Grey longbill, sooty boubou.
Green breasted pitta, African pitta, Grey winged robin, Red winged francolin, Joyful greenbul, White bellied crested flycatcher, Uganda woodland warbler, White collard oliveback, leaf love, African broadbill, Willcock's honeyguide.
Riverline forest, papyrus swamps, dry and wet woodlands, lakes and rivers,Iron wood forest and brassus palm savana.
www.eastafricashuttles.com /uganda-birding.htm   (561 words)

  
 Birdseekers Tours to Gambia
The edges of the sewage pools were teeming with waders, including several Green and Wood Sandpipers, Black-winged Stilts and a whole assortment of more familiar waders.
Solomon found a Black Wood Hoopoe which proved quite elusive, but we all saw it as it flew over the road.
In an open area on the edge of the wood, we found a party of 6 Swallow-tailed Bee-eaters that were perched on a bare branch.
www.birdtours.co.uk /birdseekers/may2002/gambia2001.htm   (5448 words)

  
 Indicator Birding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Before I had found a good subject, a loud commotion was heard as no less than 17 Green Wood-hoepoes expressed their raucous alarm at at an unusual intruder.
Apparently it had extracted a nestling from the nest tunnel of the Green Wood-hoopoe, and unusually for this communal species, at least two family groups of this species had banded together to mob the predator.
Close examination revealed that the Gymnogene had a nestling of some sort in it's talons, which it then proceeded to eat at it's leisure.
www.birding.co.za /feature1.htm   (361 words)

  
 Pinkmoose Birding
Time for a new woodland, well, wooded savannah would be more accurate.
The new wood was near Yundum so we named it Yundum Woods.
The usual woodland birds were easily found: Bearded Barbet, Green Wood-hoopoe, Fine-spotted Woodpecker, Lizard Buzzard, the doves, plus a wintering Common Redstart.
www.pinkmoose.ic24.net /gambia/yundum.htm   (934 words)

  
 African Bird Club | main
The woodland also held a number of other species that are local in Ethiopia and many of which are more characteristically West African.
Commonly encountered species were Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis, Green Wood-hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus, Green-backed Eremomela Eremomela pusilla, Foxy Cisticola Cisticola troglodytes, Yellow-bellied Hyliota Hyliota flavigaster, Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver Plocepasser superciliosus, Black-headed Gonolek Laniarius erythrogaster, Black-faced Firefinch Lagonosticta larvata and Brown-rumped Bunting Emberiza affinis.
Seen once each were Black-billed Wood Dove Turtur abyssinicus, Swallow-tailed Bee-eater Merops hirundineus, Brown Babbler Turdoides plebejus, Gambaga Flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae and Black-rumped Waxbill Estrilda troglodytes.
www.africanbirdclub.org /feature/Gambela.html   (551 words)

  
 Birds and birding in Sudan
The number of resident species is limited but includes Black Scrub-Robin Cercotrichas podobe and White-headed Babbler Turdoides leucocephala in wooded areas, while Green-backed Heron Butorides striata and Egyptian Plover Pluvianus aegyptius occur along the Nile.
The main interest of the area lies in the wide range of Palearctic migrants passing through or remaining in the area, and the intra-African migrants that follow the rains north from about April.
Green areas of the city adjacent to the Nile attract Gabar Goshawk Micronisus gabar, Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus, European Bee-eater Merops apiaster, Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus, Hoopoe Upupa epops, Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla, Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia, Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata and Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis.
africanbirdclub.org /countries/Sudan/introduction.html   (630 words)

  
 NFX0040
Green Wood-hoopoes, Fork-tailed Drongo, African Turtle Doves, Smith's Bush Squirrel, African Hoopoe, Green- spotted Dove, Tropical Boubou, Grey Go-away-bird, Common Bulbul and others, insects.
CU calls, sigh calls and part display song from a pair, Grey Go-away-bird, Brown Parrots, Green Wood-hoopoes and other birds in b/g, wind in trees at times.
CU calls and display song from a pair, doves, starlings and other birds in b/g, good song and wing-beats when pair are together.
www.naturalfx.ukf.net /nfx0040.htm   (819 words)

  
 Press Releases November 2002 - Greening Africa's Desert Margins - United Nations Environment Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
These have allowed them to grow crops and graze livestock without sacrificing the fertility and stability of the land.
The Turkana of Northern Kenya traditionally plan crop planting around an intimate knowledge of the behaviour of frogs and birds, such as the ground hornbill, green wood hoopoe, spotted eagle owl and nightjar, which are revered as "prophets of rain".
The Buganda, whose present-day descendants live in southern Uganda, believed in the sanctity of nature developing sacred, protected, forest sites, strict codes on hunting including a taboo on killing young or pregnant animals and strict rules on the extraction of clay.
www.unep.org /Documents/Default.Print.asp?ArticleID=3164&DocumentID=270   (1584 words)

  
 Caligo Ventures: Kenya
On this safari we hope to see 400 species of birds, as well as a great diversity of mammals, insects, spiders, fungi, orchids and other plants.
DAY ONE This morning we will drive north from Nairobi through the fertile, green country of the Kikuyu tribe, past traditional farms and pineapple and sisal estates.
The afternoon will be free to explore the trails along the Naro Moru River for Green Pigeon, Hartlaub's Turaco, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Crowned Hornbill, Grey Cuckoo-Shrike, and great looks at sunbirds such as Amethyst, Collared, Bronze, Golden-winged and Tacazze.
www.caligo.com /kenya/kenyabird.prt.html   (1234 words)

  
 Birdnet-Reiseberichte, hier: NAMIBIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Note: The violet (not bottle-green) head, mantle and back is not easily seen, also not at very good conditions.
Etosha National Park: Halali-Camp (good place), I saw a family in the vicinity of the entrance gate (22nd January).
Habitat: Dry, broad leafed woodland and wooded koppies; and mopane woodland.
www.birdnet.de /travel/travel-a01-1.htm   (2251 words)

  
 Namibia03
CM found two birds in a mixed flock along the Kambazembi Walk (13th December).
: Dry, broad leafed woodland and wooded kopjies; and mopane woodland.
Occurs almost exclusively north of 21° latitude, corresponding to the southern distribution limit of the mopane-dominated vegetation with which it is closely associated.
www.birdinggermany.de /namibia03.htm   (3214 words)

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