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Israel names biblically banned Hoopoe national bird
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/29/08 | Jeffrey Heller

Posted on 05/29/2008 9:30:35 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 05/29/2008 9:30:36 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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So who wants to eat the national bird?


2 posted on 05/29/2008 9:32:39 AM PDT by Military family member (GO Colts!!)
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beat out rivals such as the Yellow-vented Bulbul and the Palestine Sunbird.

Now that was tough competion!

3 posted on 05/29/2008 9:33:30 AM PDT by xJones
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I couldn’t imagine eating a Bald Eagle. I wonder if it tastes like chicken...


4 posted on 05/29/2008 9:40:35 AM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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Actually, there's more to the hoopoe than meets the eye. Hoopoe

"Their habitat is open cultivated ground with short grass or bare patches. They spend much time on the ground hunting insects and worms. That diet may have been among the reasons the Hoopoe is included on the Old Testament's list of unclean birds (see Leviticus 11:19 and Deuteronomy 14:18). The Hoopoe is 25–29cm long, with a 44–48cm wingspan. This black, white and pink bird is quite unmistakable, especially in its erratic flight, which is like that of a giant butterfly. The crest is erectile, but is mostly kept closed. It walks on the ground like a starling.

The song is a trisyllabic "oop-oop-oop", which gives rise to its English and scientific names.

The nest is in a hole in a tree or wall. Like those of its relatives the kingfishers, the nest tends to contain copious amounts of faeces and smell very foul as a protection against predators. Nesting hoopoes are capable of squirting fecal matter at intruders."

5 posted on 05/29/2008 9:43:11 AM PDT by xJones
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Looks like a kingfisher, cardinal, woodpecker, hummingbird hybrid.


6 posted on 05/29/2008 9:45:58 AM PDT by fso301
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Like a bird version of “Trick My Ride”.


7 posted on 05/29/2008 9:48:10 AM PDT by najida (The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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Like a bird version of “Trick My Ride”.


8 posted on 05/29/2008 9:48:24 AM PDT by najida (The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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Nesting hoopoes are capable of squirting fecal matter at intruders

Who knew? LOL

9 posted on 05/29/2008 9:50:51 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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So what’s the Palestinian national bird going to be? The vulture?

}:-)4


10 posted on 05/29/2008 9:53:48 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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I couldn’t imagine eating a Bald Eagle. I wonder if it tastes like chicken...

No, they taste like a cross between a blue heron and an osprey.

11 posted on 05/29/2008 10:20:06 AM PDT by xJones
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Isreal needs a national bird like they need another enemy..


12 posted on 05/29/2008 10:20:15 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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Nesting hoopoes are capable of squirting fecal matter at intruders."

That pretty much debunks the urban legend that primates are the only animals who use their own fesces as a weapon.
13 posted on 05/29/2008 10:32:38 AM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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14 posted on 05/29/2008 10:48:48 AM PDT by sr4402
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Very cool bird. It has it all going on, Thanks!


15 posted on 05/29/2008 10:50:53 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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Love that punk hairdo!


16 posted on 05/29/2008 10:55:17 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Average White Conservative)
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Palestinian Sunbird


Yellow-vented Bulbul


17 posted on 05/29/2008 10:57:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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Well, let’s say I definitely wouldn’t want to go after a nesting pair of hoopoes.


18 posted on 05/29/2008 12:06:06 PM PDT by xJones
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So who wants to eat the national bird?

That would be me.

"mmmmm... E-mew"

19 posted on 05/29/2008 2:30:11 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (There is no lie as bold as a truth half told)
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That’s it? Great, it looks like it’s wearing a kaffiyeh.


20 posted on 05/29/2008 3:54:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel
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