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bee-eater

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bee-eat·er (btr)
n.
Any of various chiefly tropical Old World birds of the family Meropidae that have brightly colored plumage and feed on bees and wasps.
bee-eater
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any insectivorous bird of the family Meropidae of tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, having a long downward-curving bill and long pointed wings and tail: order Coraciiformes (kingfishers, etc.)
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bee-eater
n (Orn) → Bienenfresser m


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And some bee-eater birds use sharp hooks on their bills to stab their siblings.
Savage siblings by Chang, Maria L. / Science World
Ornithologists observed that African bee-eater birds sacrifice their own reproductive opportunities to help their kin raise offspring (135: 364) and that male red-winged blackbirds with familiar neighbors attract larger harems and thus have more offspring (136: 311).
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During breeding season, a reproductively active pair will enlist as many as two helper birds to help build a new nest and forage for bees, butterfiles and other insects that make up the bee-eater diet.
Avian altruism: African birds sacrifice self-interest to help their ... by Fackelmann, Kathy A. / Science News
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