- Upupidae - ヤツガシラ科 -

General names

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In Japanese, the Hoopoe is known as ヤツガシラ yatsu-gashira, meaning 'eight-heads'. However, it is written with the characters 戴勝 'wear headdress', from the Chinese.

Species names

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SCIENTIFIC & WESTERN		JAPANESE		CHINESE			KOREAN
Latin	Eng, Fr, Ger, Ru	Japanese	Other J	Chinese	Chinese (Taiwan)	Other Ch	Korean
Upupa
Upupa epops	Common hoopoe Eurasian hoopoe Hoopoe Huppe fasciée Wiedehopf Удод	ヤツガシラ (戴勝) yatsu-gashira 'eight heads' (but written with the same characters as Chinese)		戴胜 (戴勝) dài-shèng 'wear headdress'	戴勝 dài-shèng 'wear headdress'	呼呼哱 hū-hū-bō huhubo (onomatopoeic) 呼哱哱 hū-bō-bō hubobo (onomatopoeic) 山和尚 shān héshang 'mountain monk' (also used for the Jay) 臭姑鸪 (臭姑鴣) chòu gū-gū 'smelly gu (aunt) gu (bird)' (cf Harpactes erythrocephalus, Red-headed Trogon) 花蒲扇 huā pú shàn 'flowery palm fan' (north) 发伞头鸟 (髮傘頭鳥) fà-sǎn-tóu-niǎo 'hair umbrella head bird' (south) 鸡冠鸟 (雞冠鳥) jī-guàn-niǎo 'coxcomb bird'	후투티 hututi 'hoopoe'

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General names

Species names