These birds are very interesting. Eurasian Hoopoes are widespread in Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and northern Sub-Saharan Africa. Most European and north Asian birds migrate to the tropics in winter. Those breeding in Europe usually migrate to the Sahel belt of sub-Saharan Africa. The African populations are sedentary all year. Eurasian Hoopoes require bare or lightly vegetated ground on which to forage and vertical surfaces with cavities (such as trees, cliffs, or even walls, nest boxes, haystacks, and abandoned burrows) in which to nest. These requirements can be provided in habitats such as heartland, wooded steppes, savannas and grasslands, as well as forest glades.