Description
English: Lunch at last, Pench, Madhya Pradesh
Date 19 March 2016, 19:29:40
Author Saumilkshah
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lunch_at_last.jpg
The hoopoe or common hoopoe (Upupa epops) is a colourful bird found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive "crown" of feathers. It is the only extant species in the family Upupidae. Upupa and epops are respectively the Latin and Ancient Greek names for the hoopoe; both, like the English name, are onomatopoeic forms which imitate the cry of the bird. |