Eurasian Hoopoe

Barbate Marsh

Costa de la Luz

09Sept2013

Only survivor of the family Upupidae...9
subspecies...widespread in Europe, Asia,
No. & sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.

Upupa epops

(L 9.8-12.6" WS 17.3-19"

Wt 1.6-3.1 oz)

The Book of the Glory of Kings and
the Bible are silent,

The noble Qu'ran tells the tale of the
ant and the hoopoe.

(A.D. Hope)