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Photo by volker sthamer
langano, Ethiopia

Photo by Solomon
Degra/Segeneiti Eritrea, September 2005

Phoeniculus somaliensis

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa
Eastern Africa: found in Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies:

• P. s. somaliensis:

• South-eastern Ethiopia to western Somalia and north-eastern Kenya

• P. s. neglectus:

• Arid thornscrub of central Ethiopia

• P. s. abyssinicus:

• Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea

Considered by some to be a subspecies of Green Woodhoopoe ^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Open wood and bushland, well wooded streams and parks.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

[edit] External Links