Phoeniculus purpureus
Silhouette: Jon Hill (Photo by DickDaniels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Woodhoopoe_RWD7.jpg) · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The green wood hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus) is a large, up to 44 cm (17 in) long tropical bird native to Africa. It is a member of the family Phoeniculidae, the wood hoopoes, and was formerly known as the red-billed wood hoopoe.
In 1784 the English illustrator John Frederick Miller included a hand-coloured plate of the green wood hoopoe in his Icones animalium et plantarum. He coined the binomial name Promerops purpureus and mistakenly specified the type locality as eastern India. The green wood hoopoe is now one of five species placed in the genus Phoeniculus that was introduced in 1821 by the Polish zoologist Feliks Paweł Jarocki.
Six subspecies are recognised: The green wood hoopoe... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serrekunda | 🇬🇲 Gambia | |
| 2 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana | |
| 3 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 4 | Lomé | 🇹🇬 Togo | |
| 5 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 6 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Lagos | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 8 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 9 | Lilongwe | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 10 | Cotonou | 🇧🇯 Benin |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Disney's Animal Kingdom | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | SeaWorld San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | San Diego Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | North Carolina Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | San Diego Zoo Safari Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Detroit Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Cape May County Park & Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Moody Gardens | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Indianapolis Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 11 | Honolulu Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 12 | Zoo Atlanta | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 13 | Oceanium | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Green Wood Hoopoe sighting in Harare on a given day, based on 213 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 19th most-seen of the 213 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Green Wood Hoopoe in Harare on a given day, against about 20% in February–March and November, the lowest months. That is one of Harare's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain against 200 mm in December.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green Wood Hoopoe sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Green Wood Hoopoe sightings, Harare ranks 3rd at about 30%. The best odds are in Serrekunda (Gambia, about 50%) and Accra (Ghana, about 50%).
Same order: Bucerotiformes
The closest relatives of the Green Wood Hoopoe that you can see in Harare (order Bucerotiformes, Hornbills and Hoopoes) are African Hoopoe (about 20%) and Common Hoopoe (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green Wood Hoopoe is recorded against all the birds logged in Harare (213 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
