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Hoopoe

Upupa epops

Description:

Bird with black and white stripes on wings, an orange crest, and a long pointed bill

Habitat:

Urban garden

Notes:

Bouganvillas and plumbagos in urban garden outside my office window, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar.

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14 Comments

lindistar
lindistar 13 years ago

These birds are very common in the south of portugal. They run along the beach, then stop for a bit, and as soon as you get near them they are off again! Well in my case anyway!

VanessaVermaak
VanessaVermaak 13 years ago

In South Africa we get the Upupa Africana. I can't seem to see any difference in the markings. Interesting

michaeladamsparks
michaeladamsparks 13 years ago

Awesome! One of my favorite birds as well. Looks hilarious when running. Their range is huge though--most of Eurasia and Africa.

Tariq alSuhaibany
Tariq alSuhaibany 13 years ago

Never knew you could find Hopoes in Qatar  Odd.

tarekdoha
tarekdoha 13 years ago

I typed hodhod into my iphone and the auto spellchecker turned it into Joshua. what an odd digital world we live in.

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 13 years ago

...and met the Queen of Sheba, Bilqis. A beautiful story.

Nice picture ... We called it in arabic (hodhod) if you know tje story of prophet Soliman ... This bird guided prophet Soliman to Saba'a in Yeman

April
April 13 years ago

Hola bird lovers! Thanks for the comments.

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 13 years ago

mylyoung: I agree, these situations are funny (I have a good sense of humor).
Hugs.

mylyoung
mylyoung 13 years ago

I hope you are not offended; I was merely amused at how your comment got translated. Cheers!

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 13 years ago

I was hoping that in any situation like this. But this is good if you guys have fun.
Warm greetings

mylyoung
mylyoung 13 years ago

Cool! Never even heard of this. And I shouldn't laugh, but eularubio's (presumably "precioso") comment definitely got lost in translation...

lori.tas
lori.tas 13 years ago

Hoopoe! One of my favorite birds. Thanks for posting it here.

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 13 years ago

Precious boy student

April
Spotted by
April

Doha الدوحة, Ar Rayyan, Qatar

Spotted on Aug 26, 2010
Submitted on Nov 16, 2010

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