Red-bearded Bee-eater taking a beetle

Chris Lee’s image of a Red-bearded Bee-eater (Nyctyornis amictus) taking a beetle complements an earlier post of the bird taking a cicada and another taking a lizard as well as a cicada.

The food of the Red-bearded Bee-eater is mainly insects, hawked in flight. These include cicadas, crickets, large beetles, termites, ants, wasps, hornets and carpenter bees.

This post is a cooperative effort between NaturePixels.org and BESG to bring the study of bird behaviour through photography to a wider audience.
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