hoopoe

How To Use hoopoe In A Sentence

• Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, they determine, under the direction of a raven and a jackdaw, to seek from him and his subject birds a city free from all care and strife. The Birds
• Pisthetairos and Euelpides, frustrated with life in wartime Athens, search for Tereus, a king who had been changed into a hoopoe, in the realm of the birds in the sky. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
• Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
• Black and white bands cross the hoopoe's wings, back and tail.
• With a flutter of his wings and a low, rasping call, a male hoopoe lands at the rim of the nest cavity, holding a small caterpillar in his curved bill.
• Hoopoes like open ground with some trees to perch in and nest in. Times, Sunday Times
• As the Nile at that time was rising, there were many hoopoes and ibises in the nets, more than could be counted.
• This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel.
• Commentators generally agree that the hoopoe is the bird intended. Smith's Bible Dictionary
• Elayne knew she shouldn’t have tried to substitute a chicken feather for the quill from a magical hoopoe bird. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The First Few Notes