Hoopoe; abubilla

Medium sized bird. It is highly distinctive, with a long, slim, slightly curved black bill, with a white-yellowish base. Very characteristic by its unique fan-shaped black-tipped crest, which may also be fanned in flight. It has a pinkish to pink-beige head and body (juvenile duller), with black and white barred back and wings, and a broad white band on the black tail.

The Hoopoe has a characteristic undulating flight, caused by the wings half closing at the end of each beat or short sequence of beats. It walks on ground, probing and picking with bill, taking grubs, insects, and worms.
The call is typically a trisyllabic oop-oop-oop, which gives rise to its English, Spanish and scientific names.