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Bee Eater
29 July 2012, 02:55
FrostbitBee Eater
Any of you bird guys know which Bee Eater this is?
29 July 2012, 03:06
bwana cecilYea, that's George.
LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show.
Not all who wander are lost.
NEVER TRUST A FART!!!
Cecil Leonard
29 July 2012, 03:37
lavacaNever seen one with those colors. Where was this taken?
29 July 2012, 03:47
BNagelLooks like Swallow-tailed (p. 261, Sinclair, Hockey and Tarboton) if tail is forked.
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We heard them called both emerald bee eaters by the locals, and also swallow-tailed by some other people. Don't know the correct name for sure
Here's one of many from central Namibia.
29 July 2012, 04:02
ScriptusSwallow-tailed Bee-eater,
Merops hirundineus. 
It is the only swallow-tailed bee-eater, and the blue collar is the other give-away.
29 July 2012, 04:13
Frostbitquote:
Originally posted by lavaca:
Never seen one with those colors. Where was this taken?
On the Kafue River while Barbel fishing across from camp.
29 July 2012, 04:14
Frostbitquote:
Originally posted by bwana cecil:
Yea, that's George.
Gorgeous George the wrestler?
29 July 2012, 04:21
bwana cecilNo, it's Jigalo George, the ladies man.
LORD, let my bullets go where my crosshairs show.
Not all who wander are lost.
NEVER TRUST A FART!!!
Cecil Leonard
29 July 2012, 06:55
NakihunterIt is interesting that these are so similar to the various bee eater species in India!
An interesting annecdote - in the 1980s, when I used to work in the Tea Plantations in Inida, one evening I was taking a walk with my shotgun to see if I could get a Jungel fowl for the pot. I crossed a stream and stood right in front of a eucalyptus tree with a bee eater on the trunk - its beak imbedded in the tree! No idea how it happened - a freak of nature or if some kid shot it with a sling shot and just left it there!
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