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Bee-eaters

YC Wee
on 2nd February 2022

Our home is regularly visited by Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti leschenaultia) in the mornings and evenings. They come to feed on the Dwarf Honey Bee (Apis andreniformis) nesting in our […]

YC Wee
on 10th December 2021

The above is a Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti leschenaultia) with a male Striped Albatross butterfly (Appias libythea). The above is another Chestnut-headed Bee-eater possibly with the Asian Honey Bee (Apis […]

YC Wee
on 28th May 2018

Recently a large Malayan Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) trespassed into an area in Punggol where a group of Blue-throated Bee-eaters (Merops viridis) were nesting. This triggered more than 10 bee-eaters […]

YC Wee
on 1st May 2018

Jeremiah Loei‘s video recorded the calls of the Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) when it was perching on a branch of a tree. The bee-eater was responding to another calling from […]

YC Wee
on 20th February 2018

Bee-eaters are so-named because they specialise in catching bees. In addition to bees, they also take carpenter bees, wasps, hornets… not to mention dragonflies, cicadas, beetles, ants, crickets, termites, butterflies, […]

YC Wee
on 9th August 2017

“Saw a pair of adult Blue-throated Bee-eater (Merops viridis viridis) in the city, one of which had beak damage (below). “The terminal point of both mandibles is broken off, especially […]

YC Wee
on 23rd June 2017

Jack Lai’s images of the Blue-throated Bee-eater (Merops viridis) flying with an egg between its mandibles (above) is another BICA-moment (LINK). This bee-eater flew to a grassy plot, dropped the […]

YC Wee
on 28th May 2017

“We typically watch Blue-throated Bee-eaters (Merops viridis) either in flight or perched upon branches, but the chance to observe one at ground level is rather rare (above). “At a secluded […]

YC Wee
on 21st November 2016

KC Chan’s image of a Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) in flight was photographed at Tuas South. Note that the bill is sharp-pointed and slightly decurved. It is not made for […]

YC Wee
on 10th November 2016

“Bee-eaters often wag their tails and many of us would have seen this common behaviour. Hilary Fry (The Bee-eaters, 1984) says that ‘all perched Bee-eaters wag their tails back and […]

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