Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Bird is the word --- Red-bearded bee-eater

This needs to be in an RPG somewhere; this dude is cool...

The red-bearded bee-eater is a large species of bee-eater found in the Indo-Malayan subregion of South-east Asia. This species is found in openings in patches of dense forest. Like other bee-eaters, they are colourful birds with long tails, long decurved beaks and pointed wings. They are large bee-eaters, predominantly green, with a red colouration to face that extends on to the slightly hanging throat feathers to form the “beard”.

Like other bee-eaters, they predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in flight from perches concealed in foliage. They hunt alone or in pairs, rather than in flocks, and sit motionless for long periods before pursuing their prey. They nest in burrows tunnelled into the side of sandy banks, but do not form colonies.


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