Hoopoe

In laying the lapwing is 5-10 eggs in white, covered with a grayish or ocher patina. Only the female incubates them for 22-24 days. All this time, its hard feeding male and chicks feed delivered by both partners.

Lapwing chicks spend in the nest for three weeks and it does not burden yourself hygiene. In nests reigns appalling filth, and already on the approach to there is a very unpleasant odor emanating from the allocation of oil gland, especially abundant in chicks and hatching laying females.

Hoopoe feeds on insects. Long, thin, slightly curved beak allows the bird not only to collect insects from the soil surface, but also get them out of the ground. A popular delicacy, the larvae of dung flies and beetles, which explains the widespread attraction Udodoff to the herds.

Language hoopoe shorter than the beak, so captured the tip of the beak bird of prey once swallowed can not always. You have to practice the juggling food-tossing up and catching open beak.

In the cliffs and gullies, composed of soft soil, dig holes hoopoes diameter and a length of about 10 to 120 cm Nora is a nesting chamber with dimensions of 18 x 20 x 15 cm