Black Woodhoopoe

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Black Woodhoopoe
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Phoeniculidae
Genus: Rhinopomastus
Species: R. aterrimus
Binomial name
Rhinopomastus aterrimus
(Stephens, 1826)

The Black Woodhoopoe or Black Scimitarbill (Rhinopomastus aterrimus) is a species of bird in the Phoeniculidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda.

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