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GLOSSARY
diet
prey
breed
flock
migration
predator
nest
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PASSAGE
THE LIFE OF THE EUROPEAN BEE-EATER
A brilliant movement of colour as it catches its food in the air, the European bee-eater moves between three continents.
True to their name, bee-eaters eat bees (though their diet includes just about any Aying insect). When the bird catches a bee, it returns to its tree to get rid of the bee's poison, which it does very efficiently. It hits the insect's head on one side of the branch, then rubs its body on the other. The rubbing makes its prey harmless.
European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) form families that breed in the spring and summer across an area that extends from Spain to Kazakhstan. Farmland and river valleys provide huge numbers of insects. Flocks of bee-eaters follow tractors as they work f1elds. When the birds come upon a beehive, they eat well - a researcher once found a hundred bees in the stomach of a bee-eater near a hive.
European bees pass the winter by sleeping in their hives, which cuts off the bee-eater's main source of food. So, in late summer, bee-eaters begin a long, dangerous journey. Massive Aocks from Spain, France and northern Italy cross the Sahara desert to their wintering grounds in West Africa. Bee-eaters from Hungary and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe cross the Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Desert to winter in southern Africa. “It's an extremely risky stratagem, this migration,” says C. Hilary Fry, a British ornithologist who has studied European bee-eaters for more than 45 years. “At least 30 percent of the birds will be killed by predators before they make it back to Europe the following spring.”
In April, they return to Europe. Birds build nests by digging tunnels in riverbanks. They work for up to 20 days. By the end of the job, they've moved 15 to 26 pounds of soil - more than 80 times their weight.
The nesting season is a time when fami lies help each other, and sons or uncles help feed their father's or brother's chicks as soon as they come out of their eggs. The helpers benefit, too: parents with helpers can provide more food fo r chicks to continue the family line.
It's a short, spectacular life. European bee-eaters live for five to six years. The diff1culties of migration and avoiding predators along t he way affect every bird. Bee-eaters today also find it harder to find food, as there are fewer insects around as a result of pesticides. Breeding sites are also disappearing, as rivers a re turned into concrete-walled canals.
by Bruce Barcott, National Geographic magazine, 2008
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