A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

any of several crested Old World birds with a slender down-curving bill

Any of several birds of the family Upupidae and having a distinctively patterned plumage, a fanlike crest, and a slender, downward-curving bill.

a south-European species which occasionally visits England