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RAINBOW BEE-EATER FACTS |
Description
The Rainbow Bee-eater is a brightly coloured bird with long curved bill and long tail streamers. Head is golden with black eye stripe and body is mostly green and blue. The bee-eater is a fast flier that flits around after insects.
Size
25cm to tip of tail
Habitat
open forests, woodlands and shrublands
Food
catches insects on the wing, mainly bees and wasps, also dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths
Breeding
Nests in sandy bank with long tunnel leading to a nesting chamber lined with grasses. Lays 4-8 eggs.
Range
mainland Australia, as well as eastern Indonesia, New Guinea
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Coraciiformes | | Family: | Meropidae | | Genus: | Merops | | Species: | ornatus | | Common Name: | Rainbow Bee-eater |
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