What does a hoopoe look like and is it really dirty?

The appearance of this bird is that it has a large crown on its head, and there will be black hair at the top of the crown, the color of the body is brown, and the wings and tail are black and white stripes, which are not particularly large, and this bird is not very dirty, and it looks very clean.

The hoopoe bird is the national bird of Israel, and the hoopoe bird is very good-looking. The feathers are generally apricot in color. Likes to build nests in tree hollows. It is now also listed as a national protected animal.

It's really brain-dead children who can ask this kind of question, and they see it every day in the north, and you mean that every day the family dies?

The hoopoe bird fits the descriptive characteristics. Hoopoe birds (scientific name: upupaepops) are also known as Hu Biao, Hua Pu Fan, Mountain Monk, Cockscomb Bird, etc., with a striking feather crown on the top of the head, the chain is usually folded and lodging is not obvious, and when it is upright, it is like an open folding fan, and it rises and falls with the chirping.

The mouth is slender and curved downward. It is a well-known insectivorous bird that inhabits the trunks of trees in open fields, gardens and suburbs, and preys on pests such as needleworms, mole crickets, marching insects, walking insects and larvae of longhorn beetles, accounting for about 88% of its total food consumption. It plays an important role in the protection of forests and farmland.

It is distributed in Eurasia and northern Africa, including the whole of Europe, Africa north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Arabian Peninsula and the Himalayas, Hengduan Mountains, Minshan, Qinling Mountains, and Asia north of the Huai River.

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Hoopoe birds

It inhabits open places such as mountains, plains, forests, forest edges, roadsides, river valleys, farmlands, rotten grasslands, villages and orchards, especially in the cultivated land habitat of forest edges. They feed on insects and make nests in holes in trees. Sexually active, likes open and wet ground, and has a long mouth that flips on the ground in search of food.

When there is a warning, the crown feather stands up, and after takeoff, it relaxes. Breeding in the month of each year, they choose to nest and lay eggs in natural tree cavities and hollow woodpecker tree borer holes, and sometimes build nests in rock crevices, bank pits, and holes in broken walls. Each clutch lays 5-9 eggs.

It is mainly distributed in Europe, Asia and North Africa, and has a wide distribution in China. The hoopoe bird is the national bird of Israel, and the hoopoe bird in "What Happened to the Rabbit That Year" refers to Israel.

Scientific name in Chinese. Hoopoe.

Latin scientific name. upupa epops

Another name. Hu Qi, Hua Pu Fan, Mountain Monk, Rooster Bird, Stinky Partridge.

<> strictly speaking, the feathers on the top of its head are not red.

It is illegal to raise hoopoe birds. The hoopoe bird is a national second-class protected animal, and if the perpetrator illegally hunts rare or endangered wild animals under national key protection, it will constitute the crime of illegal hunting of rare and endangered wild animals, and the public security organs shall file a case for prosecution.

[Legal basis].

Article 64 of the Provisions of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security on Standards for Filing and Prosecution of Criminal Cases under the Jurisdiction of Public Security Organs (1).

Those who illegally hunt or kill rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection shall file a case for prosecution.

These articles and article 65 of these provisions are provided"Rare, endangered wildlife", including countries included in the List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection.

Class I and Class II protected wild animals, listed in the appendix of the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

1. Wild animals listed in Appendix II and the above-mentioned species domesticated and bred.

Article 65.

Those who illegally acquire, transport, or protect precious or endangered wild animals and their products under national key protection shall be prosecuted.

as provided for in this article"Acquisitions", including purchases for profit, personal use, etc.; "Transportation", including the act of carrying, mailing, using others, using transportation, etc.; "**", including selling and processing and utilization for profit.

There are several reasons why hoopoe birds can't be kept alive:

1.Hoopoe birds are wild birds that live in the wild for a long time and have high requirements for the environment, and if they are kept in cages, they may die because they do not adapt to the environment.

2.The hoopoe bird is a beneficial bird that can prey on pests such as needleworms, walking insects, and longhorn beetle larvae, which is beneficial to agriculture and forestry, and can cause serious harm to wild birds if they are caught and sold to make money.

3.The hoopoe bird is an insectivorous bird that mainly feeds on insects and worms, and if the hoopoe bird is captured and kept as a pet, it needs to be provided with enough food such as insects and worms to accompany it, otherwise it may cause malnutrition or death of the hoopoe bird.

4.Hoopoe birds need plenty of space and freedom to live in, and if they are kept in cages, they may limit their mobility and flight capabilities, affecting their health and longevity.

To sum up, the reasons why hoopoe birds cannot survive are mainly due to the high environmental requirements of wild birds, the harm caused by capture and trafficking to wild birds, the high demand for food, and the need for sufficient space and freedom in the living environment. Therefore, if you are not a professional and do not have enough experience and conditions, it is better not to catch and sell wild birds such as hoopoes.

Hopoe birds feed on insects and do not eat food. The hoopoe bird is a kind of beneficial bird, which can prey on a large number of pests such as needleworms, walking insects, and larvae of the longhorn beetle, and the hoopoe bird cannot survive because the hoopoe bird feeds on insects and does not eat food, hoopoe (scientific name: upupaepops):

It is a bird of the family Hopoe and the genus Hopoe. There are a total of 8 subspecies. Depending on the subspecies, the body length is 26-28 cm, the wingspan is 42-46 centimeters, and the weight is 55-80 grams.

The crown of feathers on the top of the head is long, broad, and fan-shaped.