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Before eating a bee, the European bee-eater removes the sting by repeatedly hitting the insect on a hard surface. It can eat around 250 bees a day. [citation needed] The most important prey item in their diet is Hymenoptera, mostly the European honey bee. A study in Spain found that these comprise 69.4% to 82% of the European bee-eaters' diet. [8]
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The bee-eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. Most species are found in Africa but others occur in southern Europe, Madagascar, Australia and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly colored plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers.
These bees attempt to congregate in a mass defence against the bee-eaters. [25] In Israel, a European bee-eater was documented attempting to eat a small bat that it had caught, which probably could not fit down its throat. [26] Like kingfishers, bee-eaters regurgitate pellets of undigested material, typically 2 cm (0.8 in) long black oblongs. [5]
Merops is a large genus of bee-eaters, a group of birds in the family Meropidae, native to Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The members of this family are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers.
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ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are a group of usually colourful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly , with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at their base), though in many kingfishers one of these is missing.