The answer is yes. Constantino Brumidi painted a striking cinnamon-colored Hoopoe (hoo’poo) with bright black and white bands on its tail and wings. It is in a hallway on the first floor of the Capitol, and is one of the few caged birds that Brumidi painted.

The facts: The intricately decorated walls of the Brumidi Corridors are covered with an amazing variety of images from nature, including scores of bird species native to the New World. Brumidi also painted a Hoopoe (Upupa epops), a bird that is not native to America but that has a very wide Old World range, including Europe, Africa, and Asia.

The Hoopoe's song is pleasantly distinct, its glamorous plume evokes the sun, and it is a frequent character in world art and literature. It was a sacred bird in Egypt, is represented in Arab poetry, and is depicted in the Vatican Palace frescoes, which Brumidi was employed to restore before immigrating to the United States.