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 datadubai.com: Birds: The Bee Eater
Bee eaters are insectivorous, eating mainly flying insects.
Carmine bee eaters are strongly attracted to bush fires preying upon fleeing insects.
All species can eat dangerous insects such as bees, wasps and hornets, which are rendered harmless before being eaten: the tail (and sting) of the insect is rubbed against the perch to expresses the venom and often the sting itself.
www.datadubai.com /bee1.htm   (380 words)

  
 Blue-tailed Bee-eater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is predominantly green; its face has a narrow blue patch with a fl eye stripe, and a yellow and brown throat; the tail is blue and the beak is fl.
Like other bee-eaters it predominantly eats insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch.This species probably takes bees and dragonflies in roughly equal numbers.
The insect that are caught are beaten on the perch to kill and break the exoskeleton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue-tailed_Bee-eater   (266 words)

  
 Bee-eater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All are colorful and have long downturned bills and pointed wings, which give them a swallow-like appearance when seen from afar.
While they will pursue any type of flying insect, honeybees predominate in their diet.
(1992) say that "in 20 separate studies of the diet of 16 kinds of bee-eaters, Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) comprised from 20% to 96% of all insects eaten, and honeybees formed on average about one-third of the Hymenoptera." Catching an insect mid-air is referred to as sallying.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bee-eater   (385 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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www.encyclopedian.com /search.php?searWords=Eater   (98 words)

  
 Birding information - blue bellied parrot
blue winged parrot have been eating seeds, fruits and buds and were being greedy with food.
Their underparts are yellowish, the head and back grass-green and the wings are blue...
There is a blue frontal band across the nape of the head, while the top of the head extending to the back of...
www.birdingclub.com /9/birding424.html   (382 words)

  
 Birdwatching Trip Report from Rhodes
There are numerous Woodchat Shrikes and  Blue Tits in the olive-trees.
In the orchard we saw numerous Hoopoes and Blue Tits.
Cheeks are white and the birds have a fl cap.
www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/Greece/rhodes5/rhodes-april-03.htm   (3022 words)

  
 MEROPIDAE BEE-EATERS
Forehead narrowly white by bill, shading backward to powder-blue, but often, possibly immature birds, forehead yellowish and blue eyebrow poorly developed.
Broad fl eyeband, cheeks broadly blue but may be narrowly white.
Main diet based on bees and wasps in Asia and dragonflies in Africa.
my.ort.org.il /holon/birds/ar2.html   (374 words)

  
 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater - Merops persicus - Guêpier de Perse
Blue-cheeked bee-eater differs markedly from European bee eater in its predominantly bright green plumage and rufous-chesnut throat, with yellow only on chin.
Elongated central tail feathers of adult are longer, and has longer, finer fl bill, giving it a longer, more streamlined look than European.
They can eat dangerous insects such as bees, wasps and hornets which are rendered harmless before being eaten: the tail (and sting) of the insects is rubbed against the perch to express the venom and often the sting itself.
www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/coraciiformes/blue-cheeked.bee-eater.html   (633 words)

  
 Shetland Wildlife - News Archive 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The BLUE-CHEEKED BEE EATER was seen briefly at Helendale in the morning but could not be relocated later in the day.
It initally caused some anxiety as it was thought that this may have been the Blue-cheeked Bee Eater, and the visiting birdwatchers were all set to invade Noss, but it turned out not to be the case.
The BLUE-CHEEKED BEE EATER is still in the garden immediately adjacent to the Loch of Asta, Tingwall and the female BLACK-HEADED BUNTING has reappeared at Finnie, Fetlar.
www.nature-shetland.co.uk /oldnews/97birdarch.html   (8048 words)

  
 Birds of Armenia Project
In non-breeding plumage, blue feathers have green tips.
Adult Green overall with blue, fl and white face, yellow chin, and reddish throat and underwing coverts; blue tint on rump.
Adult Bright blue with red-brown back and fl flight feathers.
www.muhlenberg.edu /depts/biology/boa/plate37.htm   (516 words)

  
 Merops persicus
At rest it is easily identified by its almost entirely green body, completely lacking the reds and yellows on the upperparts of a European Bee-eater.
The only hint of blue is on the forehead and cheeks, and the orange and yellow is restricted to small throat patch.
In flight, the uniform green upperparts make them obviously different from European Bee-eaters but from below they are not so easy to identify.
www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Merops_persicus.htm   (178 words)

  
 Morocco: Sahara, High Atlas & Atlantic Coast Bird Watching Holiday in Africa & The Middle East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
We’ll watch for Black-shouldered Kite on our way to the ancient walled city of Taroudannt - where our hotel for the night began life as a sultan’s palace!
Our travels conclude at Agadir, beside the blue Atlantic shore, where the bird-rich rivers of the Sous and Massa offer a remarkable contrast.
Waders, wildfowl and other wetland species are abundant and we have chances of Barbary Partridge, Audouin’s Gull, Red-necked Nightjar and Black-crowned Tchagra as we go in search one of the world’s rarest and weirdest-looking birds - the critically endangered Bald Ibis.
www.limosaholidays.co.uk /tourDetail.cfm?tourID=206   (618 words)

  
 Birdfinders - Birdwatching Holidays - Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Sheltering in the thinnest of shade in extreme conditions we may find European Nightjar, Rufous-tailed Rock-thrush, Desert Lesser Whitethroat, Ménétries' and Upcher's Warblers, Spotted Flycatcher and European Golden Oriole, under threat from similarly hungry raptors including Pallid and Western Marsh-harriers and even Isabelline Shrikes.
Then on to Qitbit for a sunset walk around the guest house garden, perhaps turning up a Eurasian Wryneck, Blue Rock-thrush, Barred Warbler, Common Rosefinch, Ortolan Bunting or Rose-coloured Starling.
Desert pools outside the resthouse compound often host Crowned Sandgrouse in the late afternoon.
www.birdfinders.co.uk /tours/oman.htm   (2146 words)

  
 Bird watching trip report - Israel
Around 10.00 we decided to head over to the Eilat Bird Reserve, on arrival we visited the ringing station where a busy stream of birds were being processed.
We then took the next couple of hours wandering the various paths around the vegetation and pools, mostly similar species to K20 and K19, but noteworthy were 1 BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER, 1 WHISKERED TERN, 1 BLUE CHEEKED BEE-EATER, 500+ HOUSE MARTIN, 1 WATER RAIL,1M RED-BACKED SHRIKE, 1 MASKED SHRIKE and 1 'showy' BLUETHROAT.
A return visit to the falafel bar in Eilat, and we re-fuelled for the afternoon's birding.
www.birdingisrael.com /chrisMills/5.htm   (747 words)

  
 Antique print picture of Blue Cheeked Bee-Eater by Bree
Antique print picture of Blue Cheeked Bee-Eater by Bree
Antique print of bird by Bree with original hand coloring
Then click on the Order button at the top or the Order link at the bottom of this page.
www.finerareprints.com /birds/bree/vol_bree_8688.htm   (288 words)

  
 Our second birding trip through Oman, October 25 - November 23, 2000, www.rekel.nl/Oman
One very annoying warbler: The size of an Icterine Warbler, Yellow shafts on the primary wing feathers, (still?) some yellow feathers on the breast, a rather prominent eye-streak.
We were happy to obtain petrol in Qurun (fuel consumption 71 l on 236 km), it gave us the opportunity to drive through the sands in the direction of Jallaan Bani Bu Ali.
Birding around our camping spot at N 21.52 E 59.27: Golden Eagle, Spotted Thicknee (2), Desert Whitethroat (the call is more or less like a Blue Tit), Desert Wheatear, Arabian Babbler, Common Redstart, Little Green Bee-eater (5) and Brown-necked Raven.
www.rekel.nl /Oman/oman_2000/bird_report_2000.htm   (2732 words)

  
 Birding update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Dawkah (7.4): Montagu's Harrier 1, Turtle Dove 50, Common Cuckoo 2, European Roller 3, Blue Rock Thrush 1, Red-backed Shrike 1
Khasab (5.1): Blue Rock Thrush 1, Red-tailed Wheatear 1 (ssp xanthoprymna), Woodchat Shrike 2
Sayh (5.3): Blue Rock Thrush 1, Song Thrush 1, Eversmann's Redstart 9, Black Redstart 21, Hume's Wheatear 19, Red-tailed Wheatear 17
www.birdsoman.com /oldupdate.html   (15578 words)

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