Information you do not know about the hoopoe

The hoopoe is one of the creatures that is mentioned in the Qur'an. It is also a beautiful bird that we would like to see and look forward to its actions especially when we see it early in the morning when going to business. But do you know about the hoopoe as a bird as worth ?? This is the task of this article we will list after the facts you should know about the hoopoe

   1. The general qualities of the hoopoe

The hoopoe is a bird with many colors, ranging from cinnamon to chestnuts. It is 25 to 29 cm long and weighs up to 57 grams. It has two wings in which the black and white colors are in a different layout from the rest of the birds. He wears a crown of feathers on top of his head, usually pointed to the top, dyed chestnut with black tips.

   2. The hoopoe does not make traditional nests like other birds
 First, the Hoopoe lives in Africa, Europe, Asia and Madagascar. He prefers forests and open spaces and may live in gardens. Birds build nests on a branch in an appropriate corner of a lot of haystacks and appropriate materials, but the hoopoe differs in building a paddle from the rest of the birds. He searches for the gaps in the trees or the slopes or the gaps in the walls in the cities to prepare him to become his nest. But the hoopoe does not clean the nest so the smell of their nests is usually permeable can be connected to them.

   3. Diet
 The hoopoe deals with insects and earthworms. It depends mainly on the prospecting of its long beak in the earth to search for worms. When the hoopoe hunt an insect hit her body in the ground to remove the wings and legs and then tossing them into the air and pick them up to eat.

The African hoopoe also deals with lizards, frogs, small snakes, seeds and berries.