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Eurasian Hoopoe

Upupa epops · Family Upupidae

Upupa epops

Family Upupidae

Order
Bucerotiformes
Family
Upupidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,303,578
Countries and territories with records
162
Eurasian Hoopoe
Shantanu Kuveskar · Common Hoopoe Photograph By Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shantanu Kuveskar · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 1,303,578 occurrence records from 162 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (25.2%), France (14.6%), India (14.3%), Portugal (7.9%) and Israel (4.4%); together they account for 66.4% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.63% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Upupa epops combines the genus name Upupa with the species epithet epops. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Upupa: Upupa marginata.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 2 species of the family Upupidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 2 times the family average (654,722). The family Upupidae belongs to the order Bucerotiformes, which has 70 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the order Bucerotiformes

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