Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops (Linnaeus, 1758)

Extremely rare, vagrant, passage migrant & summer visitor.

  1. One, not aged, 28th July 1948 (A. Shaw).
  2. One, not aged, 1st May 1977 (D.E. Ladhams).
  3. One, not aged, 29th-30th May 2003 (pers. comm. Dr A. Herring).*

The 1948 record was given as Ubley, so may not have been beside the lake.

There was another record on 2nd May 1954 of “one on a lawn, Ubley, near Blagdon, May 2 (G. Lowther) (cf. Bristol Evening Post, May 7 1954).” This is close to the lake but there is no evidence of it being seen there.

Bibliography (sources of information):

  1. Blaythwayt, Rev F.L. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1948. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  2. Chadwick, P.J. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1977. Bristol Naturalists’ Society.
  3. Davis, H.H. (ed.). Ornithological Notes Bristol District, 1948. Bristol Naturalists’ Society.
  4. Herring, Dr A. pers. comm.
  5. McGeoch, J.A. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1977. Somerset Ornithological Society.

Last update: 8th December 2024