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Of the 27 species of Bee-eaters in the world we have six of them in our immediate region. Two species nest in the same location...the Chestnut-headed and the Blue-throated. The latter has some rather puzzling behaviour in that it is not a local citizen....it is a migrant that apparently comes from Sumatra...which is on a similar latitude. They are marginally bigger than the endemic Chestnut-headed Bee-eaters. When feeding the chicks in the nest they start off with bees and smaller insects but as the chicks get bigger the prey gets bigger.
Canon EOS1DX, 500mm lens plus 1.4 x ISO 2000, f8, 1/3200, bean bag. Cheers Graeme |
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