Common hoopoe with pale reddish brown crest and neck, black and white wings, black tail with white crescent. Upupa epops

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Common hoopoe with pale reddish brown crest and neck, black and white wings, black tail with white crescent. "In England, its visits were formerly considered as ominous by the vulgar." Upupa epops Edward Donovan (1768-1837) was an Anglo-Irish amateur zoologist, writer, artist and engraver. He wrote and illustrated a series of volumes on birds, fish, shells and insects, opened his own museum of natural history in London, but later he fell on hard times and died penniless. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Edward Donovan's "The Natural History of British Birds" (1794-1819)

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