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	Hoopoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hoopoe Upupa epops is in the same order of often colourful near passerine birds as the kingfishers, bee-eaters, and rollers.
		Hoopoes are widespread in Europe, Asia and North Africa.
		In classical Chinese poetry, the Hoopoe is depicted as a celestial messenger often bearing news of the spring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoopoe (394 words)

	Hoopoe
		Hoopoes are strikingly beautiful birds, with fl and white striped wings and tail.
		In the northern ranges, the hoopoe is migratory in winter.
		The young hoopoes hatch in three to four weeks and are born naked and helpless.
	www.robstewartphotography.com /facts/Hoopoe.asp?i_id=536 (415 words)

	St Helena Hoopoe - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about St Helena Hoopoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The hoopoe is the sole member of its family, the Upupidae.
		The wings and tail are banded with fl and white, and the rest of the plumage is buff-coloured.
		Hoopoes visit Britain during the spring and autumn migration, but seldom breed during that time.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /St+Helena+Hoopoe (195 words)

	St Helena - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about St Helena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The badge of St Helena shows the island's rugged coastline and a ship of the East India Company, flying the St George's cross.
		St Helena became a British possession in 1673, and a colony in 1834.
		Native to St Helena is the extremely rare giant earwig Labidura herculeana, which can grow up to 8 cm/3 in long, the largest species of earwig in the world.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /St+Helena (197 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- St. Helena scrub and woodlands (AT0720)
		St. Helena, one of the most remote islands in the world, is of global importance for its unique biodiversity.
		St. Helena became famous when Napoleon was exiled to the island in 1815; he died there in 1821.
		St. Helena is a British colony, with its capital and port at Jamestown.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/at/at0720_full.html (1876 words)

	Hoopoe Profile - Such a Smelly Bird! - Animal Life
		The hoopoe have a beautiful striped crest atop their heads that rises when they sense danger, and their backs are also striped.
		The hoopoe was loved by the Egyptians and is found in their mythology adorning the sceptre of the god Horus, symbolizing happiness.
		The legend in Islam shows that the hoopoe smells foul because it carries the dead on its head, which is why it is forbidden to kill one.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art12743.asp (357 words)

	Extinct birds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		St Helena Bulwer's Petrel, Bulweria bifax (Saint Helena, Atlantic, early 16th century)
		St Helena Petrel, Pseudobulweria rupinarum (Saint Helena, Atlantic, early 16th century)
		St Helena Flightless Pigeon, Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos, possibly survived into the Modern Era.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Extinct_birds (7202 words)

	Hoopoe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Like those of its relatives the kingfishers, the nest tends to contain copious amounts of feces and smell very foul as a protection against predators.
		The Hoopoe was also featured in Greek mythology.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Hoopoe contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hoopoe (311 words)

	1000Countries.com: saint Helena III: saint helena, SAINT HELENA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Helena Hospital Renowned for excellence in cardiac care and a wholistic approach to healing, St. Helena Hospital is a 192-bed community hospital offering expertly skilled doctors, the latest medical...
		Saint Helena is an island in the Atlantic Ocean 2,800 km off the west coast of Africa belonging to the United Kingdom.
		The St Helena Institute was founded in 1997 to co-ordinate and undertake research into the Island of St Helena and its dependencies, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.
	www.1000countries.com /countries_of_the_world/saint_helena_3.html (2979 words)

	List of extinct animals of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The list of extinct animals in Africa features the animals that have become extinct on the African continent and its islands, like Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, St.
		Large St. Helena Petrel, Pterodroma rupinarum (St. Helena)
		Small St. Helena Petrel, Bulweria bifax (St. Helena)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_Africa (283 words)

	Extinct birds - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A little-known native name from Western Nepal probably refers to this bird, but for various reasons, no survey for Ophrysia has ever been conducted in that country, nor is it generally assumed to occur there (due to the native name being overlooked).
		St Helena Bulwer's Petrel, Bulweria bifax (St Helena 1550)
		This species was believed to be extinct since 1987, when the last positive sighting was made in Cuba.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Extinct_birds (1392 words)

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		The Hoopoe Upupa epops is in the same order of often colourful near passerine birds as the kingfishers, bee-eaters, and rollers.However, in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the Hoopoe is separated from the Coraciiformes as a separate order, the Upupiformes.
		They migrate from all but the southernmost part of their range to the tropics in winter.Their habitat is open cultivated ground with short grass or bare patches.
		It walks on the ground like a starling.The song is a trisyllabic "oop-oop-oop", which gives rise to its English and scientific names.The nest is in a hole in a tree or wall.
	www.treknature.com /workshops/38772 (297 words)

	St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history; Contents
		St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history; Contents
		Fossil bones of extinct St Helena Rail Atlantisia podarces
		Fossil bones of extinct St Helena Hoopoe Upupa antaios
	kidstonmill.org.uk /contents.htm (131 words)

	Extinct Birds - Aves - Ornithology - Conservation - Birding in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		St Helena Gadfly Petrel (Pterodroma rupinarum) - St Helena 1550
		St Helena Hoopoe (Upupa antaois) - St Helena 1550
		Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) This species was believed to be extinct since 1987, when the last positive sighting was made in Cuba.
	www.birding.in /ornithology/extinct_birds.htm (1326 words)

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		The introduction of goats into the island of St. Helena led to the entire destruction of the native forests, consisting of about a hundred distinct species of trees and shrubs, the young plants being devoured by the goats as fast as they grew up.
		Hogs were turned out in St. Domingo by Columbus in 1493, and the Spaniards took them to other places where they settled, the result being, that in about half a century these animals were found in great numbers over a large part of America, from 25 deg.
		On the other hand the great shrike, the tree-creeper, the nut-hatch, the nut-cracker, the hoopoe, and many other birds, lay from four to six or seven eggs, and yet are never abundant.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/4/5/5/14558/14558.txt (14078 words)

	IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Upupa antaois
		St Helena Hoopoe Upupa antaois was a giant, flightless hoopoe, endemic to St Helena (to UK).
		It is known only from bones and the causes of extinction are unknown, but presumably it was hunted to extinction by people and introduced predators soon after the discovery of the island in 1502.
		Upupa antaois was a giant, flightless hoopoe, endemic to St Helena (to UK)
	www.iucnredlist.org /search/details.php/40149/all (306 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Darwinism, by Alfred Russel Wallace.
		Hogs were turned out in St. Domingo by Columbus in 1493, and the Spaniards took them to other places where they settled, the result being, that in about half a century these animals were found in great numbers over a large part of America, from 25° north to 40° south latitude.
		Bates, who speaks of the butterflies of the Amazon valley exhibiting innumerable local varieties or races, while some species showed great individual variability.
		Orolina exhibits four distinct varieties, all occurring together, and these differ not only in colour but in form, one variety being described as having the fore wings much elongated in the male, while another is much larger and has "the hind wings in the male different in shape." Of Heliconius Numata Mr.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/14558/14558-h/14558-h.htm (13058 words)

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