Three bee-eaters on a branch. One of the bee-eaters has a bee in its beak.
Bee-eaters eat large insects such as bees, wasps and dragonflies. They are immune to the stings of the bees and wasps and manage to brush off the stings against a branch of the insects.
Like Kingfishers, bee-eaters breed in a nest at the end of a long tunnel in a steep bank.
Bee-eaters breed in southern and eastern Europe. They also breed in north-west Africa, Asia Minor and western Asia. They winter in West Africa or southern parts of Africa.
Since 2010, a small number of bee-eaters have been breeding annually in the Netherlands
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