Bibliography : Hoopoe
| W. Geoffrey Arnott | Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z |
| John Ashton | Curious Creatures in Zoology |
| Ron Baxter; Colum Hourihane, ed. | Learning from Nature: Lessons in Virtue and Vice in the Physiologus and Bestiaries |
| Anne Clark | Beasts and Bawdy |
| Michael J. Curley | Physiologus |
| Debra Hassig | Homo animal est, homo animal non est: Text and Image in Medieval English Bestiaries |
| R. L. H. Lops | La huppe: histoire littéraire et légendaire d'un oiseau |
| Ann Payne | Medieval Beasts |
| Hana Šedinová | The Influence of Egyptian Culture on the Description and Interpretation of the Hoopoe in the Physiologus |