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Hoopoe

A bird (Upupa epops) with a fan shaped crest and a narrow, downward curved bill.

Tereus was turned into a hoopoe because of his disgraceful treatment of his wife, Prokne, and her sister Philomela.

Pronounced ho-po (the Os are long with the accent on the first syllable).

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