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NT Hoopoe - U. e. Africana?

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Subject: NT Hoopoe - U. e. Africana?
From: Tim Dolby <>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 06:38:43 +0000
Hi all,

I’ve just published on Birdline Australia a follow-up photograph of the NT 
Eurasian Hoopoe - a bird seen recently by Tim Wethers (Feb 8, 2014) in 
Galiwin’ku, Elcho Is - see 
http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=6. Although I know 
that the separation of Hoopoe ssp can be awkward (being based mostly on the 
depth of the orange, pink and cinnamon colour tones in the plumage), this bird 
seems to have a richer orange cinnamon colour above and lacks the subterminal 
white band in the crest. This may make it the resident African form Upupa epops 
Africana, a bird treated by some authorities as a separate sp. By contrast, the 
bird seen at the Roebuck Plains Roadhouse in 2011 was thought to be a juv. 
northern ssp U. e. saturata.

Interested to hear any thoughts? Just a U. e. saturata variant? Another Hoopoe 
ssp?

Cheers,

Tim Dolby

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