How To Use Hoopoe In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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Black and white bands cross the hoopoe's wings, back and tail.
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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.
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Hoopoes like open ground with some trees to perch in and nest in.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the Nile at that time was rising, there were many hoopoes and ibises in the nets, more than could be counted.
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This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel.
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Commentators generally agree that the hoopoe is the bird intended.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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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
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For example, and this is just for openers, you can be dumb as a dodo, crazy as a coot, silly as a goose, a sitting duck, or simply a dupe from de huppe, the hoopoe, an Old World bird, said to be more stupid than most.
Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays
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Highlights included close views of a Cleopatra butterfly, a Wood Cricket and excellent views of a Hoopoe by Langle.
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As the Nile at that time was rising, there were many hoopoes and ibises in the nets, more than could be counted.
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Orange headed thrush, Indian Pitta and resident birds such as oriole, spotted owlet and hoopoe can be sighted on this campus.
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a bird called a "hoopoe," according to the context.
The Captiva and the Mostellaria
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We also have a lesser honeyguide in our garden forest, a species prone to use woodhoopoes and other hole nesting birds as their host.
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The Iti National Park has wild goats, wild boars, deer, rodents, tortoises, reptiles, as well as an amazing variety of birds among which there are vultures, eagles, partridges, hoopoes, hawks, and owls.
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Hoopoes breed across most of Europe, except Scandinavia, favouring open country and clumps of old trees including pollard willows, meadows orchards and olive plantations.
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Orange headed thrush, Indian Pitta and resident birds such as oriole, spotted owlet and hoopoe can be sighted on this campus.
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The Hoopoe is euphoniously named for its call.
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On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks, a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.
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Seemingly invisible on our horses we rode amongst azure-winged magpies, great bustard, hoopoes and a hundred other species of birds.
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As for hoopoe, I will quote The Century Dictionary, definition and all, with its abbreviations expanded: "The form hoopoe was doubtless originally pronounced like hoopoo, which, with hoophoop, first appears about 1667-78; an imitative variant or clipped reduplication of the earlier hoop, apparently after Latin upaupa ….
OUPblog
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There were birds everywhere, of all types - hoopoes, wagtails, tits, finches, and sparrows and swallows nesting in the beams of the house; there were cuckoos singing by day and nightjars by night.
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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.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher.
A Year on the Wing
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Of all birds that hatch for themselves the hoopoe is the only one that builds no nest whatever; it gets into the hollow of the trunk of a tree, and lays its eggs there without making any sort of nest.
The History of Animals
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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 Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
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As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms.
Country Diary: Ariège
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Again, some creatures live in the fields, as the cushat; some on the mountains, as the hoopoe; some frequent the abodes of men, as the pigeon.
The History of Animals
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Norfolk birders know the hoopoe as a spring and autumn passage migrant, but only in small numbers.
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A striking creature, the hoopoe has bright cinnamon pink coloration and a crest of black-tipped feathers that, when erect, resembles an Indian headdress.
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Feeding quietly, a hoopoe can be surprisingly difficult to detect on the ground especially when probing with long decurved bill.
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As I arrive, a hoopoe flounces down to the field alongside and, crest outspread, studiously feasts on worms.
Country Diary: Ariège
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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.
