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Field Notes

Description:

Bird

Notes:

Please identify the name

Species ID Suggestions

Eurasian hopoe

Upupa upops
binishroobas
1

Hoopoe
sam.hamade
1

Comments (4)
Skyleaf
I can barely see the picture, but it does look like a hoopoe. Hoopoes have black and white stripes and a sort of crest.
Gordon Dietzman
I think this is a hoopoe, Upupa epops. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoopoe

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PublishedMarch 31, 2011

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