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Portrait of a Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Yala NP An incredibly active bird that spends a lot of its day like this, on a small branch, rapidly rotating its head in all directions to track flying insects. Fly out, capture, return to branch, and repeat. Asia,Blue-tailed Bee-eater,Merops philippinus,Sri Lanka,Yala Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Portrait of a Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Yala NP

An incredibly active bird that spends a lot of its day like this, on a small branch, rapidly rotating its head in all directions to track flying insects. Fly out, capture, return to branch, and repeat.

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    garrylomasphotography
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    Great shot Ferdy! You got pretty close with this one...are they quite tame or did you just get lucky? Posted 10 years ago
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      Ferdy Christant
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      Thanks, Gerry. They are abundant and reasonably tame. Even our loud diesel jeep usually did not scare away most of them. They also don't really watch you, they are too busy hunting :) Posted 10 years ago

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The Blue-tailed Bee-eater

The Blue-tailed Bee-eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in southeastern Asia. It is strongly migratory, seen seasonally in much of peninsular India.

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Similar species: Kingfisher, Bee-eater, Rollers
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Apr 4, 2015. Captured Nov 13, 2014 10:46.
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  • NIKON D800
  • f/5.6
  • 1/1000s
  • ISO250
  • 400mm