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Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

open access: yesMonografies del Museu de Ciències Naturals, 2011
Barriocanal Lozano, Carles, Robson, D.
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The Hoopoe on the Pulpit

2023
The vast majority of ʿAttar’s Conference of the Birds is devoted not to the birds’ journey, but to the homiletic sessions delivered by the hoopoe to prepare them for the quest. This frame-tale structure creates an imagined performance setting, complete with an embodied speaker and reactive audience.
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Upupidae - Hoopoes

1949
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, Issue 20, pp.
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Eurasian hoopoe Upupa epops

2020
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Anton Krištín, Guy M. Kirwan
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The Monody of the Hoopoe in Aristophanes’

Greek and Roman Musical Studies, 2017
Animal choruses are familiar in ancient Greek comedy. Besides Aristophanes, there are 13 examples of them. Vase paintings provide evidence from the beginnings of Old Comedy. They had to sing the traditional melic parts of the agon and the parabasis. Aristophanes used the comic animal chorus in Knights (424 bc), Wasps (422), Birds (414), Frogs (405) and
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Hoopoes color their eggs with antimicrobial uropygial secretions

Naturwissenschaften, 2014
Uropygial gland secretions are used as cosmetics by some species of birds to color and enhance properties of feathers and teguments, which may signal individual quality. Uropygial secretions also reach eggshells during incubation and, therefore, may influence the coloration of birds' eggs, a trait that has attracted the attention of evolutionary ...
Juan J, Soler   +4 more
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Upupidae - Hoopoes

1935
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, Issue 11, pp ...
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A STUDY OF THE AFRICAN HOOPOE*.

Ibis, 1950
Summary.1. Hoopoes scarce and silent from Jan. to mid‐March.2. Small parties then foregather. From mid‐April there is much jostling and pooping until breeding starts in August.3. Male courts female by giving her tit‐bits of food.4. Birds maintain a feeding territory in breeding season, and are restless, rather than migratory, thereafter.5.
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