This is a video of a hoopoe near Stiphout in the Netherlands.
Hoopoes are rare in the Netherlands; they are more common in southern Europe.
Henk Verbruggen made this video.
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Love these birds – and their name(s) Upupa epops… Very rare in the UK too, and only in the very south of England when they overshoot or get blown off their migration route. RH
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Climate change may bring hoopoes further north … but will bring trouble for other wildlife.
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