Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops)


Posted by Swissblad on Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:19 pm

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Lovely to see these birds breeding in the lower Rhine valley again...such a magnificent creature with its crown plumage and evocative ooop-ooop-ooop call.

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by david fletcher on Thu Aug 18, 2022 1:49 am
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Lovely composition Sinuhe. A good sign to see them breeding near you again.
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by Swissblad on Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:51 am
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david fletcher wrote:Lovely composition Sinuhe.  A good sign to see them breeding near you again.
Thank you David. I was surprised to see that the Eurasian [font=sans-serif]([/font]Upupa epops[font=sans-serif])[/font] and African Hoopoes [font=sans-serif]([/font]Upupa africana[font=sans-serif])[/font] are now recorded as being different species, and not 2 sub-species variants. Live and learn.
 

by Karl Egressy on Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:38 am
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Great find and image .One of the favorite birds of my childhood. I used to watch their nest hole dueling nesting season.
 

by Swissblad on Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:51 am
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Karl Egressy wrote:Great find and image .One of the favorite birds of my childhood. I used to watch their nest hole dueling nesting season.
Thank you Karl - that must have been fascinating - Hungary has a wonderful variety of wild birds - top of our list to see is the European Roller (Coracias garrulus). We very much enjoyed our visit to Lake Neusiedl (Fertò tò) earlier this year.


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by Carol Clarke on Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:27 pm
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Nice one! Apparently as many as 100 of these pass through the UK on their migration and stay a short time, usually south England - but I haven't seen one over here yet!

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by Swissblad on Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:03 pm
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Carol Clarke wrote:Nice one!  Apparently as many as 100 of these pass through the UK on their migration and stay a short time, usually south England - but I haven't seen one over here yet!  

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Migratory birds are difficult to spot.....game of chance and luck.
I was fascinated to see that there is a small colony of European Bee eaters (Merops apiaster)  in Norfolk.
The RSPB cam can be seen here: https://youtu.be/1xsbiN9yWmM
So who knows, with our climate changing, Hoopoes may settle in England as well.
 

by Axel Hildebrandt on Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:19 am
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Great find and a species I'd love to see.
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by Swissblad on Fri Aug 19, 2022 7:31 am
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Thanks Axel, Kaiserstuhl near Freiburg is a good place to see them.
There are also several Bee eater colonies.
 

by Carol Clarke on Fri Aug 19, 2022 4:21 pm
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Swissblad wrote:
Carol Clarke wrote:Nice one!  Apparently as many as 100 of these pass through the UK on their migration and stay a short time, usually south England - but I haven't seen one over here yet!  

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Migratory birds are difficult to spot.....game of chance and luck.
I was fascinated to see that there is a small colony of European Bee eaters (Merops apiaster)  in Norfolk.
The RSPB cam can be seen here: https://youtu.be/1xsbiN9yWmM
So who knows, with our climate changing, Hoopoes may settle in England as well.
The only problem is they will be heading back to Africa in a few days time - usually around the end of August.  Some have nested  a few times before in different parts of the UK but they always leave any time now.  Such beautiful birds - and that applies to all the different bee-eaters!

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