Hop (Upupa epops)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn this painting I have depicted this beautiful bird that we don’t see (anymore) in the Netherlands, the Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops). With a lot of luck we can sometimes see it as a migrant in March-May and August-October, it hibernates in Africa. It may owe its name to the courtship call, which is clearly a kind of Hoop-Hoop-Hoop. But it could also come from the French hupp\u00e9e (crest). In Germany he is called the wedehoppe because he jumps, hops, when searching for his food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beautiful crest is used as a means of communication of all kinds of emotions. For example when he is excited, the crest will completely erect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fun fact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The birds are known to be huge stinkers! On the one hand because they do not like to clean up: they leave manure and food scraps in their nest (usually a tree cavity or a hole in a wall), on the other hand because the female and the young have a gland near their tail that secretes a very smelly liquid (smelling like rotting flesh). They smear it in their wings. The youngsters can also spray their faeces towards an intruder when they are a bit older. The faeces then will remain in the nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reference photos: Delyth Williams from Pixabay and Rajukhan Pathan from Pexels<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cotman watercolours tubes, Faber Castel Polychromos & Pastel pencils on Saunders Waterford 300gsm 310×230 Cotton Satin\u00e9 High White paper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this painting I have depicted this beautiful bird that we don’t see (anymore) in the Netherlands, the Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops). With a lot of luck we can sometimes see it as a migrant in March-May and August-October, it hibernates in Africa. It may owe its name to the courtship call, which is clearly a kind of Hoop-Hoop-Hoop. But it could also come from the French hupp\u00e9e (crest). In Germany he is called the wedehoppe because he jumps, hops,…<\/p>\n
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