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Eurasian Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

The Eurasian Bee-eater is the only South African bee-eater with a brown back. The Eurasian bee-eater is a gregarious bird. It roosts in flocks of up to 100 birds in tall trees at night.

The Eurasian Bee-eater feeds in flight on bees, insects, wasps, butterflies, mantids and termites. It perches on a dead branch or twig and then swoops down on any insect it sees from this high perch.

Habitat is Savanna and open woodland.

Birds ringed in Russia have been seen as far south as Zimbabwe. There are Eurasian Bee-eaters that breed in the southern parts of South Africa and do not migrate to Europe in the southern winter.

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