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Green Wood-hoopoe
Rooibekkakelaar · Phoeniculus purpureus
A slim, glossy green-and-purple bird with a long tail and curved red bill that travels in chattering family parties. When the group bursts into its rocking cackle it sounds like wild laughter. It clambers over trunks and branches probing bark for insects throughout the year.
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Glossy blue-green body with a long white-spotted tail and a curved red bill; moves in noisy groups.
Listen for its call
Cackling, laughing chorus "kek-kek-kek" — the whole rowdy gang joins in.
Where to see it in Kruger
Woodland and riverine trees parkwide, moving through in noisy family groups.
Did you know
A whole family cackles together so loudly it sounds like people laughing in the trees.
Often confused with
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