Little Green Bee-eater
Merops orientalis
Goa, India - December 2004
Little Green Bee-eater employs a range of nesting habits: breeding in dense colonies of 10-30 pairs in the eastern part of its range in Pakistan and Myanmar; forming loose colonies with the nests widely spaced in India; and in Africa and Arabia they are solitary nesters.
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Goa, India - December 2004
Despite their showy plumage and conspicuous habits, Bee-eaters did not feature much in the art of the ancient civilisations of the Mediterranean. In fact, the only existing representation of a bee-eater from ancient Egypt is a bas-relief carving of a Little Green Bee-eater in the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (1508-1458BC).
Goa, India - December 2004
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