#0789 · 🐦 birds
Common Hoopoe
🇳🇱 Hop ·Upupa epops
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andrej Chudý · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Luiz Lapa · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © adiashkenazi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jean-Marc Linder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Adam Golenia · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Андреенков Олег Владимирович · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © galargus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Mark Kilner · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Ján Svetlík · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Birds of Gilgit-Baltistan · CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Eurasian hoopoe ( Upupa epops ) is the most widespread species of the genus Upupa , native to Europe, Asia and the northern half of Africa.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 28 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 54,492 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Hoopoe
- Nederlands
- Hop
- scientific name
- Upupa epops
- class
- Aves
- order
- Bucerotiformes
- family
- Upupidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 28
- sightings in Europe
- 26,277
- sightings worldwide
- 54,492
- GBIF records in NL
- 12,155
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 20969, Wikidata Q25247, GBIF 2498415, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.