Recklessly: Rainbow Bee Eater Epbc Listing

Rainbow Bee Eater Epbc Listing

We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. The crown of the head the stomach and breast and the throat are pale yellowish in color and the rainbow bee eater has a black bib and a black stripe through its red eye.

Declaration under s248 of the epbc actdepartment of the environment and heritage 14 august 2000 i robert murray hill minister for the environment and heritage in pursuance of s248 of the environment protection and biodiversity conservation act 1999 hereby declare that a list of marine species to that act shall be deemed to be established by inclusion of the following.

Rainbow bee eater epbc listing. Several hundred wasps and bees may be eaten in a single day. The rainbow bee eater is most often found in open forests woodlands and shrublands and cleared areas usually near water. It will use disturbed sites such as quarries cuttings and mines to build its nesting tunnels.

A striking colourful bird the rainbow bee eater is medium sized with a long slim curved bill and a long tail with distinctive tail streamers. Indigestible insect parts are excreted as pellets. It will be found on farmland with remnant vegetation and in orchards and vineyards.

The rainbow bee eater merops ornatus is a small bird 21 to 24 centimetres long frequently seen on horizontal perches watching for passing insects bees or wasps or engaged in flight aerobatics to chase and catch flying prey which is seized in the bill and taken back to the perch where it is beaten against the wood and any sting squeezed out before being eaten. The rainbow bee eaters two central tail feathers are longer than the other tail feathers and are longer in the male rainbow bee eaters than in the females. It has a golden crown and a red eye set in a wide black stripe from the base of the bill to the ears which is edged with a thin blue line.

Animalia animals aves birds meropidae bee eaters merops ornatus rainbow bee eater sighting data download kml csv geojson species details kingdom animalia animals class aves birds family meropidae bee eaters scientific name merops ornatus latham 1801 common name rainbow bee eater wildnet taxon id 1764 alternate. The rainbow bee eater was previously listed as a migratory species on the epbc act 1999 but was removed in mid 2016. It is still listed under schedule 5 of the department of parks and wildlife threatened species lists however this is likely to be revised in november 2016 when the revised wa gazette is released.

Rainbow Bee Eaters Return Terrestrial Ecosystems