Upupidae

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Noun1.Upupidae - hoopoesUpupidae - hoopoes        
family Upupidae
bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
Coraciiformes, order Coraciiformes - rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies
genus Upupa, Upupa - type genus of the Upupidae
hoopoe, hoopoo - any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill
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Upupidae (2 spp.), Coraciidae (1 sp.), Halcyonidae (1sp.), Alcedinidae (1 sp.), Meropidae (2 spp.), Cuculidae (2 spp.) belonged to order Coraciiformes.
STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN
The fourth and last family is the Upupidae or hoopoes, distantly related to the Phoeniculidae, or wood-hoopoes, of tropical Africa and the Bucerotidae, or hornbills, of tropical Africa and Asia.
Mediterranean tropical plumages
(Daisheng appears in the Upupidae Order.) See Cheng Tso-Hsin, comp., A Synopsis of the Avifauna of China (Beijing: Beijing Science Press; Hamburg: Paul Parey Scientific Publishers, 1987), 303-18.
Messenger of spring and morality: cuckoo lore in Chinese sources
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