Bence Mate / Hoopoe ( Upupa epops) in flight with blurred wings, Kiskunsagi National Park, Pusztaszer, Hungary. May.

Bence Mate / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) landing, with lizard prey, Kiskunsagi National Park, Pusztaszer, Hungary. May.

Bence Mate / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) courtship feeding, Pusztaszer, Hungary, May.

Hermann Brehm / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) perched on branch with cricket prey, Hungary. June

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) raising crown and stretching wings and tail. Oman, March.

Pedro Narra / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) juvenile, Sado Estuary, Portugal. May

Pedro Narra / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) with insect prey in beak, Sado Estuary, Portugal. May

Pedro Narra / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) with insect prey in beak, Sado Estuary, Portugal. May

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) feeding, Bai Yin Aobao National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia, China

David Perpinan / Hoopoe (Upupa epops) arriving at its nest with prey, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

David Perpinan / Wide-angle shot of a Hoopoe (Upupa epops) arriving nest in a rock wall, Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, June.

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Common hoopoe (Upupa epops) on ground, Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China