What Bird?🦜🌍🌏 Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #EurasianHoopoe #UpupaEpops | #Hoopoes #HoopoeFamily #Bucerotiformes 📷: Photo by SajeevBhaskaran🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds
🌍🌏 Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) #EurasianBirds #EuropeanBirds #AsianBirds #AfricanBirds | #EurasianHoopoe #Hoopoes | #birds🦜 #birdsoftheworld
sunflowerinrain#Hoopoes is back in the hamlet, shouting his little beak off. Now it's really spring.
I love its name: Upupa epops. Onomatopoeic or wot!
Recording of the call is on Wikipedia entry.
IngloriousBustardsWe moved further to the west to Las Marismas de Barbate with our guests yesterday 😊
Here we were enthralled with the history, culture and splendour of Northern Bald #Ibis feeding and at the nearby colony, masses of #migrating #Shorebirds and #migratory passerines like this one of several Eurasian #Hoopoes passing through ! 😊
American NaturalistIs it possible that when food was abundant, laying extra eggs was adaptive because it would be a way to store "fresh food" for periods of high food demands?
Barón et al. discovered that hoopoes use extra eggs as packed food to feed older siblings. Read now ahead of print!