This 23 November 2016 video is about a hoopoe (and tree sparrows) in the Netherlands.
Hoopoes, a south European species, are rare in the Netherlands.
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This 23 November 2016 video is about a hoopoe (and tree sparrows) in the Netherlands.
Hoopoes, a south European species, are rare in the Netherlands.
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I have seen them in Spain
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So have I. Also in Portugal:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/bee-eater-and-hoopoe-in-portugal/
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I feel so sorry, Wiedehopf – so many to see here in the near of Munich … disappeared – totally
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Hoopoes play a role in south German folk tales:
https://books.google.nl/books?id=OFmORVI7x_EC&pg=PT65&lpg=PT65&dq=hoopoe+bavaria&source=bl&ots=cejDg_2h9R&sig=MXScgbTDaH23gqm2qOtOjTJSroM&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzndOYv8HQAhWLcBoKHS7aBwcQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=hoopoe%20bavaria&f=false
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uj, thank you –
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My pleasure 🙂 I hope they will come back. The decline may be a consequence of agriculture becoming ‘agribusiness’.
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