Re: hoopoe

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:59:00 -0700 (PDT), Rick McCallister
<gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>DRAE has abubilla. (Del lat. *upupella, dim. de
>upŭpa).
>Given the English name, I'm guessing this bird has a
>call that sounds like it name. Is that true? If not,
>then start wondering where it comes from.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upupa_epops

According to the article, the cry of the bird is up-up-up.

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