This Hoopoe is a common bird in spain.
You can regularly hear the bird making its so characteristic hoop, hoop, hoop, sounds.
No trip has gone by without me seeing some. They are true hole-breeders and nest in the strangest places.
That they are good watchers proves my experience with this species. On a country road, I saw one sitting on the roof of an old barn.
He was on the lookout because suddenly he chose the sky and sailed over a few hundred metres away on the ground. He chopped into the ground with a flick of his beak. I thought how can you see this? to see a large larva emerge from the soil and eat it tidily.
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