upupidae

It is the only living species in the family Upupidae.

A professor in the University of Pennsylvania had written to ask about the distribution of the Upupidae Hoopoe in Britain.

The Madagascan hoopoe (Upupa epops marginata) is a subspecies of hoopoe in the Upupidae family.

HOOPOE Upupa epops (Upupidae).

The Saint Helena hoopoe (Upupa antaios), also known as the Saint Helena giant hoopoe or giant hoopoe, is an extinct species of the hoopoe (family Upupidae), known exclusively from an incomplete subfossil skeleton.

The first analysis of this species was given in 1963 by the British zoologist Philip Ashmole, who discovered in the Dry Gut sediments in the east of Saint Helena a left humerus which differed significantly from that of other Upupidae.