A digital vector illustration of a bee-eater. This particularly colourful bird sits on a branch with a side branch that has pink blossoms and green leaves on it. The background is a soft blue gradient. The bird looks around and up at an angle, creating an interesting shape. The bee-eater is one of the most colourful birds that is also occasionally found in the Netherlands. Bee-eaters are insectivorous and agile flyers, which also manage to graze on insects in flight. The name clearly comes from its main food source. The presence of large insect prey such as grasshoppers, dragonflies, wasps and also bees is a prerequisite for bee-eaters. The bee-eater is immune to bee and wasp stings. To avoid stings, it manages to rid them of their stings by rubbing them against a branch. It lives in groups and therefore breeds in colonies in burrows in walls of banks and mountains, sometimes also in the ground.
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