Hoopoe bird (Upupa epops), Bryansky Les Zapovednik, Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central European mixed forests] Reference

Upupa, it has its precise habit of flight and a good deal of its habits in looking for food, although the Hoopoe pokes about in the ground, or rather hammers the ground alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

The dry karst grasslands above the caves hold several uncommon and threatened bird species: Circaetus gallicus, Caprimulgus europaeus, Upupa epops, Lullua arborea, Anthus campestris, Lanius collurio, Emberiza hortulana, E. cia and E. cirlus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia] Reference

The existence of protected birds such as the hoopoe (Upupa epops), pale rock sparrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The Hebrew name of this bird, dukiphath, has been generally regarded as denoting the hoope (Upupa epops), an onomatopoetic word derived from the cry of the bird, which resembles the word "hoop;" a bird not uncommon in Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Mystery bird: African hoopoe, Upupa epops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery bird: dusky turtle dove, Streptopelia lugens] Reference

Hoopoes — Upupa, as the classics have it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!] Reference

'VolutOj vmdroi vrt i oruedh,) Upupa, Adcryn tebyg i gom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference

Hoopoes -- Upupa, as the classics have it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference

Upupa epops, 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference

Upupa cnim id Lulcinix dicic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine] Reference

Upupa longirostris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

Oriolus, Upupa, and Percnopterus, continue with Columba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Among birds, the typical representatives include larks (Alaudidae), pipits (Anthus; including the field pipit, Anthus campestris), wheatears (Oenanthe), buntings (Emberiza), Eastern stock dove (Columba eversmanni), turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur), roller (Coracias garrulus), hoopoe (Upupa epops), corn bunting (Miliaria calandra), black-foreheaded shrike (Lanius minor), golden and green bee-eaters (Merops apiaster, M. superciliosus), and sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe] Reference