Place: Marina di Modica, Sicily
Date: 27 May 2016.
[Upupa epops, Family Upupidae, Order Bucerotiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Hoopoe]
The sound of the hoopoe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Zdenek Vermouzek)
Distribution of the hoopoe across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 