Saber-billed forest udod [1] ( lat. Rhinopomastus cyanomelas ) is a species of bird from the family of wood hoopoes .
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Distribution
- 3 Classification
- 4 Power
- 5 Reproduction
- 6 Enemies
- 7 notes
- 8 References
Description
A medium-sized bird, body length - 26-30 cm, weight - 24-38 g. The plumage is black, shiny with a blue metallic tint. Wings are black with white spots on fly feathers. The tail is long, stepped with white apical spots on the tail feathers. The legs are short, black. The beak is black long and bent [2] .
Distribution
Central, East, and South Africa. Inhabits savannas and dry forests and woodlands. Avoids closed stands. It inhabits both plain and mountain habitats up to 2000 m above sea level.
Classification
The species consists of two subspecies .
- R c cyanomelas ( Vieillot , 1819). From Somalia and Kenya to the north of South Africa .
- R c schalowi ( Neumann , 1900). Southwestern Angola and Namibia , South Africa.
Nutrition
Mostly insectivorous bird, in addition to spiders, insects and their larvae, also feeds on fruits, kidneys, nectar. Keeps alone, in pairs, in the dry period often accompanies multi-species flocks.
Reproduction
Reproduction in the rainy season or year-round. Individual territorial pairs nest in hollows or half-hollows, often use old nesting hollows of woodpeckers or beards . Sometimes uses the same hollow repeatedly. In clutch there are 2-4 white eggs; the female incubates for 13-14 days, feeding lasts 21-24 days [3] .
Enemies
Saber-billed forest hoopoe - an object of nesting parasitism of a large honey specifier [4]
Notes
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 182. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Terry Stevenson, John Fanshawe. Field Guide to the Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi. - Hardback. - London: T & AD Poyser, 2002 .-- 602 p. - ISBN 0-85661-079-8 .
- ↑ Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG (eds). Roberts - Birds of southern Africa. - Hardback. - Cape Town: The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 2005 .-- 1296 p. - ISBN 0620340533 .
- ↑ Numerov A. D. Interspecific and intraspecific nesting parasitism in birds. - Voronezh, 2003 .-- 516 p. - ISBN 5-89981-303-03.
Links
- Saber-bellied hoopoe on video (Internet Bird Collection)
- Records of saber-clawed hoopoe voices on Xeno-canto.
- Saber-billed Forest Hoopoe at BirdLife Int.