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A young and an adult white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides).

Normally the adults have a red throat, so I wondered for some time what this one with a yellow throat was. Everything else was similar with the white-fronted bee-eaters, and I didn't find other species that were more similar.

But in an ID group, I learned that those with a yellow throat are a rare variety of the white-fronted bee-eaters.

(En ung og en voksen hvitpannebieter, der den voksne er en sjelden variant med gul hals mot normalt rød, in Norwegian)

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A bee-eater (Merops apiaster) memory from Greece in May. It's sitting in a Jerusalem thorn (Paliurus spina-christi).

Not at all the best photo I got of them, but I wanted to show more of the surroundings they live in.

(Bieter i Jerusalemtorn, in Norwegian)

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Last week we actually didn't meet any little bee-eaters (Merops pusillus) like this, in Masai Mara.

Last year we met them many places there, in addition to three other bee-eater species.

This year we only met serveral white-fronted bee-eaters, but they gave us many nice photos though.

I don't know if it was the time of year or the dryer weather that gave us less birds this time. But it was interesting to meet more of our own bird species, that had migrated for winter.

(Dvergbieter in Norwegian)

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A white-fronted bee-eater family (Merops bullockoides), that we watched and photographed for a long time, six days ago. There were at least 20 bee-eaters around our car at the same time.

(Hvitpannebieter-familie, in Norwegian)

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European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) in Greece.

(Bietere in Norwegian)

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Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) photographed from the lowest opening in the camouflage hide in Greece.

Check out the difference from the photo of them from a higher perspective in the links below the line, and how much more interesting the lowest ones are!

(Bietere in Norwegian)

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European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster).

(Bietere in Norwegian)

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Some video clips I took, white photographing European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) in northern Greece in May. (You can see the one to the left eating a bee at the start.)

Even though I'm not good at video, it was fun to catch the sounds of all the maybe hundreds of bee-eaters flying around the field, catching bees.

(Bietere in Norwegian)

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A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) in Greece, on a field with lots of them.

(Bieter in Norwegian)

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Some beautiful European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) from Greece three months ago.

Today is World Photography Day, and I have photographed some butterflies and dragonflies in the sunshine, for the annual book with photos from Norway taken today. I will also go to photograph a two year old and his family at the beach now, and maybe I will end the day by photographing some wading birds as well, in the evening light.

(Bietere in Norwegian)

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My presentation at the Ornithological Society last night, was mostly about the Kenyan birds. Here's one of them - the white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides), with its breakfast one morning in Masai Mara.

Although it was mostly open savannas there, we suddenly drove into green areas filled with birds, that felt like a taste of Paradise ツ

(Hvitpannebieter in Norwegian)

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One of the beautiful white-fronted bee-eaters (Merops bullockoides) we met in Masai Mara.

(Hvitpannebieter in Norwegian)

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The white-throated bee-eater (Merops albicollis) - the third of the beautiful bee-eater species I met in Kenya.

(Sebrabieter in Norwegian)

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Another one of the amazing bee-eater species that surrounded us in Kenya.

This is the little bee-eater (Merops pusillus).

(Dvergbieter in Norwegian)

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A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides), preparing its breakfast one morning in Masai Mara.

Although it was mostly open savannas there, we suddenly drove into green areas filled with birds, that felt like a taste of Paradise ツ

(Hvitpannebieter in Norwegian)

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White-fronted Bee-eater, Merops bullockoides bullockoides, 8.66 - 9.45 in / 22 - 24 cm. COMMON resident in grassland and savanna, usually near rivers and wetlands.

Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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This photograph was taken in Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir.

The European Bee-eater, Merops apiaster, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in southern Europe and in parts of north Africa and western Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, India and Sri Lanka. This species occurs as a spring overshoot north of its range, with occasional breeding in northwest Europe.

This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly-coloured, slender bird. It has brown and yellow upper parts, whilst the wings are green and the beak is black. It can reach a length of 27–29 cm (10.6–11.4 in), including the two elongated central tail feathers. Sexes are alike

These bee-eaters are gregarious, nesting colonially in sandy banks, preferably near river shores, usually at the beginning of May. They make a relatively long tunnel in which the 5 to 8, spherical white eggs are laid around the beginning of June. Both the male and the female take care of the eggs, which are brooded for about 3 weeks. These birds also feed and roost communally.

The season begins!

little green bee-eater