Commentators generally agree that the hoopoe is the bird intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"Last year we saw a hoopoe, which is unusual, and birdwatchers came here especially to see it," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kos RSS Feed] Reference

The hoopoe is widespread in Europe, Asia and North Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [even more confusing hoopoe data] Reference

And if anybody has his email, ask him for a hoopoe picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Monday Tour of the Blogoverse] Reference

Nor swan by hoopoe: but, poor boy, thou aye wert for a fray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theocritus, translated into English Verse] Reference

The hoopoe resembles the peacock inasmuch as both have crests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Tiny hoopoe-like birds from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah] Reference

"He killed a hoopoe with his catapult, " whispered Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalahari Typing School For Men]

The hoopoe, the pretty little Southern bird which haunts the gardens of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference

It is all about a boy who killed a hoopoe, and I want to hear from you what you think.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kalahari Typing School For Men]

“I think they chose the hoopoe because of its appearance and beauty,” he enthused.    From Wordnik.com.  [even more confusing hoopoe data] Reference

And I fancied a white cloud that can take me higher like a hoopoe, and wind is my wing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday, January 31, 2006] Reference

Seeing the kingfisher in Japan was definitely a highlight as was the hoopoe in Tunisia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exotic Bird Identification] Reference

Rare species have taken over the once-dead land, including wild orchids, hoopoe birds and wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation: Coming Back From the Brink] Reference

The hoopoe, however, could not even get his cows up on their legs, so faint and weak had they become.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

Only from time to time there came the doleful, thrice-repeated call of a hoopoe, and the angry screech of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference

The hoopoe also changes its colour and appearance, as Aeschylus has represented in the following lines: —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

In fact some workers now use the term Upupiformes for this hornbill + hoopoe + wood-hoopoe clade (Mayr 2003).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah] Reference

They hoopoe is distinguished by its colorful complexion, its long, swooping beak and slicked back tuft of hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [even more confusing hoopoe data] Reference

No, but when my master was turned into a hoopoe, he begged me to become a bird also, to follow and to serve him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birds] Reference

In Leviticus 11:13-19, however, the hoopoe is among several creatures described as “detestable, abhorrent” and not to be eaten.    From Wordnik.com.  [even more confusing hoopoe data] Reference

The hoopoe drove his cattle on to high barren hills, where the wind plays with the sand, and his cows became thin, and got no strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

Wherever one turned, from every direction came the note of the golden oriole and the shrill cry of the hoopoe and the red-legged falcon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife] Reference

The hoopoe had flown out through the hall to the open air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference

On one occasion the hoopoe (39) was missed from among the birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference

"If I should catch thee in it, I should catch a stinking hoopoe.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

The flight of the hoopoe is undulating or jerky, like that of a butterfly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

From the branch of a near tree the hoopoe startled him and made him color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference

The crest is the feature that distinguishes the hoopoe from all other birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

Meanwhile the hoopoe, with a triumphant note, flew off towards the house to tell the news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference

Gnulemah glanced down at the hoopoe, who forthwith warbled aloud and fluttered up to her shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idolatry A Romance] Reference