"The hoopoe is a colourful Bird. The Hoopoe is a medium sized bird, Size is about 30 cm with a long, slender and gently curved bill.. The diet of the Hoopoe is mostly composed of insects, although small reptiles and frogs. It is named for its call, ""hoo-poo."" It has a showy, semicircular crest and mixed reddish-brown, black, and white plumage. The bill is long and curved, the legs short. Its tail is wedge-shaped. Common Hoopoe (Upopa epops) is a very common breeding resident, found in the wooded and open areas of Haryana. Locally called 'Hudhud', it is a fawn colored bird with black and white zebra stripes on its back. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
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