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Rainbow Bee-eater № 79

Rainbow Bee-eater

Merops ornatus

Green, gold and turquoise, with two tail streamers and a real talent for rubbing the sting out of a bee before swallowing it. Nests down a tunnel dug into flat ground.

Photo · Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Tim · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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