Green Wood-Hoopoe

Hosts on Spekboom have recorded the Green Wood-Hoopoe at stays in or beside Kruger National Park, Goukamma Nature Reserve, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Kwandwe Private Game Reserve, Welgevonden Game Reserve and Garden Route National Park and other reserves. A record means a host has seen it on the property or nearby, which makes these the places to base yourself; it is never a guarantee of a sighting on any given day.

The Green Wood-Hoopoe is most recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (19% of records), Gauteng (19% of records), Mpumalanga (19% of records), based on 1,879 iNaturalist observations. 49 places to stay on Spekboom in South Africa have recorded the Green Wood-Hoopoe on site or nearby.

The Green Wood-Hoopoe is recorded throughout the year, so no month is the wrong month to look for it. For the parks where hosts record it most, these are the best seasons they give. Kruger National Park: Apr-Sep; Goukamma Nature Reserve: year-round, warm Oct-Apr; Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park: Aug-Oct, flowers, Mar-May; Kwandwe Private Game Reserve: year-round, best Mar-May, Sep-Nov. In the dry months animals concentrate at water and the grass is short.

The green wood hoopoe (Phoeniculus purpureus) is a large, up to 44 cm (17 in) long, near-passerine tropical bird native to Africa. It is a member of the family Phoeniculidae, the wood hoopoes, and was formerly known as the red-billed wood hoopoe.