Common Scimitarbill

Rhinopomastus cyanomelas

An elongated matte-black bird with black legs and a slender, strongly-decurved black bill. Females and juveniles are browner on the front. In flight it has white tail tips and a single band of white towards the end of the wing. Avoids forest; singles or pairs are found in arid and broadleaved woodland, where they are found clambering around on trunks, probing for invertebrates, and often joining mixed-species flocks. It is most easily detected by its plaintive, whistled, three-noted “wheeep, wheeep, wheeep” call. The very similar Black Scimitarbill differs from tby having a shorter, less decurved bill and a shorter tail. Abyssinian Scimitarbill has an orange bill. Woodhoopoes are larger, with chunkier reddish bill, more social habits, and glossy iridescent plumage.

识别特征

Adults are dark blue. As adults, their beaks are black but as juveniles, their beaks are grey.

分类信息

学名
Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
命名信息
(Vieillot, 1819)
Bucerotiformes
Phoeniculidae
Rhinopomastus

分布与栖息地

迁徙
Resident species

保护状况

种群趋势
declining

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分布

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