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The Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is distributed through India to southeast Asia. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water.

THIS GUY WAS PERCHED ON A TREE NEXT TO THE RIVER FLOWING NEAR MY HOUSE EATING AND ALMOST CHOKING ON A DRAGONFLY IT HAD CAUGHT.

Like other species in the genus, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and ants, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. Before swallowing prey, a bee-eater removes stings and breaks the exoskeleton of the prey by repeatedly thrashing it on the perch.
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Author Antony Grossy from Conoor, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu State, India, India
Camera location10° 04′ 31.14″ N, 76° 16′ 52.98″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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