I ignore the nearby tawny pipits, spotless starlings and chattering common waxbills. I just watch and stare at this weird bird as it moves about, sometimes looking mechanical, at other times, graceful ...

A. Seyed Rabiya and her family at Kovaipudur in the suburbs of Coimbatore have been waking up to a sharp yet distinct call of a bird for a couple of months. Little did she and her family knew that ...

The hoopoe, a crested bird with a unique appearance which is mentioned in Jewish legends about King Shlomo (Solomon) and the Queen of Sheba, is common throughout Israel.

This hoopoe was spotted in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, Deadline News reported, over 500 miles north of where the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said they are sometimes seen ...

The hoopoe - a colourful crested thrush-sized bird which lives in continental Europe but is a spring visitor to the UK - will have permanently crossed the English Channel, as will the black kite ...

The RSPB said the hoopoe, which is the size of a mistle thrush, was not native to the UK and did not breed in this country, but could be seen if it overshot its more common European nesting sites ...

Sightings were made across the south west but largely in Cornwall and Dorset. Hoopoes do not breed in the UK, but as many as 100 can turn up in spring (mostly seen solo) as they overshoot their ...

Rare exotic hoopoe snapped in Staffordshire. ... Mr Horleston, 58, who is retired, said he often took pictures in Wall Heath near Highgate Common Reserve, where the bird was spotted, ...

LAHORE: Once a common sight in Lahore’s lush gardens, the hoopoe — a bird renowned for its striking appearance and unique call — now faces an uncertain future in the city.