<Ul> <Li> Upupa africana </Li> <Li> † Upupa antaios </Li> <Li> Upupa epops </Li> <Li> Upupa marginata </Li> </Ul> <Li> † Upupa antaios </Li> <P> Hoopoes / ˈhuːpuː / are colourful birds found across Afro - Eurasia, notable for their distinctive "crown" of feathers . Three living and one extinct species are recognized, though for many years all were lumped as a single species--Upupa epops . </P> <P> Upupa and epops are respectively the Latin and Ancient Greek names for the hoopoe; both, like the English name, are onomatopoeic forms which imitate the cry of the bird . </P>

The hoopoe is most closely related to which of the following birds