Hoopaloo were a sentient species whose bodies were entirely covered by ruffled plumage, often brown in coloration with accents of blue. Their beak was distinctly hooked, and their feet featured a three-toes-forward, one-toe-back configuration. Graysom, a known information broker, was a Hoopaloo, as was Skreech, an employee of the criminal Rekias Nodo.
During the New Republic era, the Hoopaloo professor Re-Bec Arclarka instructed students at the Lerct Historical Institute, during those days, serving as a mentor to the human Beaumont Kin. While generally held in high regard at Lerct, Mico Haswell, among others, took personally offended that Arclarka, a Hoopaloo, held the position of professor, and believed Arclarka's employment was an attempt by the administration to fulfill a diversity requirement.