Arbubilla link

I'm very fond of the hoopoe. Known as arbubilla in Spanish and upupa epops in scientific Latin, all its names seem to be onomatopoeic renditions of its call. They're not uncommon around Juviles and we saw a pair the other week when we were driving nearby. This is not my photograph, sadly; it's from Iberia Nature. The site currently has a lovely bit of writing about hoopoes in Barcelona by Lucy Brzoska here.