to the tree and sickle-hop counts 6 bird-types, that are at home all in Africa south from the Sahara.
Particularly the Baumhopfe are reputation-joyful, even extremely loud and showy birds, that usually in larger family-associations forest-areas, also loosened up timbers and in individual cases palm-groves populates.
The Sichelhopfe against it live usually in pairs, often also with other bird-types socializes, in open bush and palm-landscape. All types are very active and scan the trunks and branch-areas of the trees after insects, with what they resemble the woodpeckers in its movement-manner. Frequently hangs and runs it at the trees also head-downward.
Tree and Sichelhopfe appear with preference with grass-fires where they consume the insect-flocks fleeing from the fire. A more characteristically musty smell is all types particular particularly during the incubation. they nest already in existing tree-caves.
The actual Baumhopf (Phoeniculus purpureus) lives in several subtypes on the northwest as far as to Africa's cape-region. its wings are approximately 16 cm long, the whole body approximately 30 cm. According to subtype schillert the plumage in active colors of purple over violet until blue and green. The outside-feathers of the very long tail have shortly before its top gay white spot. The feet, that red or black beak of the male usually becomes, are red longer than this of the female, otherwise the sexes resemble themselves. The 3-5 bluish eggs are put in little or not upholstered Nisthöhlen. Frequently, several pairs brood in narrow neighborhood.
With the Sichelhopf (Rhinopomastus cyanomelas), the sexes are differently colored. The adult male schillert in violet, blue-black and bottle-green colors, while the female is befiedert more inconspicuously brown until black. This bird got its name because of its long, downward bent black beak.
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