At 05:28 PM 2/12/98, gtoffic wrote:
>I got there and what
>was in the pine grove where I'd normally find Townsends Warblers, but a
>Hoopoe (Upupa epops).

>Greg's response:
>Neither species is regularly kept in North American zoos. The latest ISIS
>abstract lists one female hoopoe at Kansas City Zoo and one female and one
>unknown sex bird at Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City. These species may be
>held by private aviculturists but I haven't recently seen any of either
>listed as available by animal suppliers.

Hey, maybe it migrated here on the back of a hummingbird!


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