Phoeniculidae

The family of the phœniculidés (or Phoeniculidae ) includes/understands the 8 species dirrisors and constitutes with that of the upupidés , the order of the Upupiformes.

They are arboricolous birds of intermediate size (21 to 38 cm), generally blacks, often iridescent, sometimes with white spots on the wings and the tail. The nozzle, usually curved, is adapted to dislodge the Arthropode S in the cracks and the cracks of the barks of trees.
Les irrisors lives in sub-Saharan Africa, in mediums timbered, since the rain forest of plain to the arid thickets.

Systematic position

Alphabetical list of the kinds

List species

  • Irrisor with brown head - Phoeniculus castaneiceps (Sharpe, 1871) - Forest Woodhoopoe
  • Irrisor with white head - Phoeniculus bollei (Hartlaub, 1858) - White-headed Woodhoopoe
  • Irrisor mocker - Phoeniculus purpureus (J.F. Miller, 1784) - Green Woodhoopoe
  • Irrisor with black nozzle - Phoeniculus somaliensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) - Black-billed Woodhoopoe
  • Irrisor will damara - Phoeniculus damarensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1901) - Violet Woodhoopoe
  • black Irrisor - Rhinopomastus aterrimus (Stephens, 1826) - Black Woodhoopoe
  • Irrisor namaquois - Rhinopomastus cyanomelas (Old-fashioned, 1819) - Common Scimitarbill
  • Irrisor with scimitar - Rhinopomastus minor (Ruppell, 1845) - Abyssinian Scimitarbill

External bonds

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