Unlike some other bee-eaters, they can be found well away from water.

Bee-eaters spend around 10% of their day on what are known as comfort activities.

The bills of bee-eaters are curved, long and end in a sharp point.

There have been estimated to be between 60-80 million Little Bee-eaters.

It is also not as active as the smaller bee-eaters.

One of these was a film on carmine bee-eaters.

This is a species which prefers somewhat more wooded country than most bee-eaters.

Like other bee-eaters, this species is a richly coloured, slender bird.

The bee-eaters are a group of near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae.

The bee-eaters are almost exclusively aerial hunters of insect prey.

White-fronted bee-eaters have one of the most complex family-based social systems found in birds.

Unlike many bee-eaters, these are often solitary nesters, making a tunnel in a sandy bank.

There are 26 different species of bee-eaters.

They are related to the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.

Rainbow bee-eaters are always watching for flying insects, and can spot a potential meal up to 45 metres away.

They may also nest in colonies with European Bee-eaters.

One unusual technique often used by carmine bee-eaters is to ride the back of bustards.

Rainbow bee-eaters are believed to mate for life.

Nevertheless, the young honeyguide still mimics the calls of the young bee-eaters.

A number of the bee-eaters are migratory.

Like almost all Coraciiformes the bee-eaters are cavity nesters.

Bee-eaters catch bees in a similar manner and return to the perch to remove the sting before consuming.

Rainbow bee-eaters mostly eat flying insects, but, as their name implies, they have a real taste for bees.

The bee-eaters are a fairly uniform group, morphologically.

Bee-eaters are fairly catholic in their habitat.

Large numbers of carmine bee eaters are spotted in season.

But humans have nothing on the white-breasted bee eaters of Kenya.

White-fronted bee eaters swooped in front of our bow.

Carmine bee eaters look like tiny vermilion fighter planes.

At this point the bank was a sheer red clay cliff into which the bee eaters burrowed their subterranean nests.

These include hummingbirds, bee eaters and avocets.

The Bee Eater (1986)

Among bee eaters, as with most social birds, the females disperse upon reaching sexual maturity, presumably as a built-in mechanism to keep incest rates low.

Among these are meerkats, an African Aviary, lemurs, flamingos, red river hogs, and bee eaters.

A few miles before Erfoud, blue-cheeked bee eaters perched on the telegraph poles as the mineral tang of the desert crept into the tepid air.

Birds include the vulture, eagle, stork, bustard, Arabian partridge, bee eater, falcon, and sunbird.

Sorry as the underling mongooses' lot may be, it is nothing compared with that of a young female bee eater whose mate has abandoned her in favor of his parents.

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Another sight we never tire of is a colony of carmine bee eaters in the river bank just below camp, in full view from the lawn with its deck chairs and small pool.

The phallic is present from the Stone Age ("The Bee Eater"), until 606 BCE ("The Voice of Gomer").

Bee eaters are gorgeous birds, with opalescent bellies, emerald backs, blue tails and shimmering splashes of red and black; but males, females, young and old are all similarly decked out.

All the while, the elder bird punctuates his unseemly behavior with the many friendly little gestures of bee eater sociability and solidarity: quivering his tail, chattering his bill, chirruping sweetly.

We felt spoiled by hundreds of encounters with colonies of rose-colored carmine bee eaters, normally skittish, flying in looping patterns or heading home to their cliff dwellings in the river banks.

Although we were able to spot only one which flew before we could click, we were able to spot plenty of other creatures like the Nilgai, Buzzards, Bee eaters, etc.

In the case of the bee eaters, the son, by helping his parents raise his brothers and sisters, keeps some of his own heritage alive indirectly, through the many genes he shares with his siblings.

In a typical bee eater encounter, it is the father who seeks to woo his grown son back to the parental nest, where the son will then be expected to help gather insects to feed the father's latest clutch.

The senior bird does not try to get his way by mauling or bullying his son or daughter-in-law; all adult bee eaters are about the size of a thrush, and it is hard for one to push around another.

And to think that a bird as alluring as the bee eater existed solely to feed upon bees raised in the boy's mind a whole new range of questions: How could two things, each so excellent, be *in such mortal conflict?