Recklessly: Rainbow Bee Eater Broome

Rainbow Bee Eater Broome

They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them. The rainbow bee eater is a near passerine bird in the bee eater family meropidae.

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Stopped at the road junction with the kalumbarrumitchell falls roads rest area.

Rainbow bee eater broome. They pick a nice sandy bank or in broome the side of the road and they excavate a nice deep hole in which they will lay eggs. Their hunting style is mesmerizing. The kimberley is a bird watchers heaven and home to over 300 bird species including the beautiful and threatened gouldian finch the purple crowned fairy wren and the colourful rainbow bee eater.

Ive never noticed one here but on a recent visit to broome they were everywhere. Rainbow bee eaters eat insects mainly catching bees and wasps as well as dragonflies beetles butterflies and moths. It is the only species of meropidae found in australia.

Meropidae and the only member of this family to be found in australia. The kimberley is a bird watchers heaven and home to over 300 bird species including the beautiful and threatened gouldian finch the purple crowned fairy wren and the colourful rainbow bee eater. We have observed them nest in a hollow they have dug in the gravel sides of the track around the poo ponds in recent years but with the upgrade to the track they are no longer able to do that.

We encountered several road surfaces sand rock and even a bit of bitumen mainly on jump ups. They are supreme aerial acrobats. Julatten broome darwin julatten trip report part 2 september october 2018.

The rainbow bee eaters range includes throughout mainland australia as well as eastern indonesia new guinea and rarely the solomon islands. The rainbow bee eater merops ornatus is a very colourful member of the bee eating family. And yes they do eat bees and other flying insects.

The barbed wire around the ponds is now the perfect roost for the rainbow bee eaters that we see on a regular basis around broome. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them. Away just before 700am to continue along the gibb river road.

The rainbow bee eater apparently visits perth and rottnest island frequently. Rainbow bee eaters eat insects mainly catching bees and wasps as well as dragonflies beetles butterflies and moths.

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