The hoopoe, who did not take long in coming, said: I have just found out that which you do not know. I have brought you reliable information about the people of Sheba.
Meaning:-
Hoopoe: a salmon-pink Eurasian bird with a long down-curved bill, a large erectile crest, and black and white wings and tail.
Sheba: Saba may reasonably be identified with the Biblical Sheba (I Kings x. 1-10). It is further referred to in the Sura called after its name: xxxiv. 15-20. It was a city in Yemen, said to have been three days’ journey (say 50 miles) from the city of San’a. A recent German explorer, Dr. Hans Helfritz, claims to have located it in what is now Hadhramaut territory. The famous dam of Maarib made the country very prosperous, and enabled it to attain a high degree of civilization (“provided with every requisite” in the next verse). The Queen of Sheba therefore rightly held up her head high until she beheld the glories of Solomon.