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European bee-eater up close 🌈 Rust, gold and turquoise in full sun. Beka Nature Reserve, Puck Bay, Poland, July.
🇵🇱 Żołna, Rezerwat Beka.

#birds #beeeater #birdphotography

November 2, 2026 at 7:01 PM

Tony Ramsden

@tramo.bsky.social

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #Yellow #Birds Beeeater

Beeater is perched on a dead branch looking sideways its colourful plumage standing out as well as its red eye

October 29, 2026 at 7:17 AM

Frank

@kritzelich.bsky.social

Carmine Beeeater for #HeadsUp and #Mealtime.
Twofer from #Tanzania for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶
#HabariNzuri

A Southern Carmine Bee-eater perched on a bare branch against a blue sky, its head tilted upward and its beak open with an insect pinced between.

October 28, 2026 at 9:08 AM

Brenna

@iamowls.bsky.social

White throated Bee Eater
Based off of one I've seen at The National Aviary.

Please don't repost or redraw without permission.

#digitalart #digitalpainting #digitalillustration #painting #illustration #firealpaca #birdart #birds #beeeater #whitethroatedbeeeater #merops #meropsalbicollis

White throated bee eater looking left. It has a light grey olive body with a white face, white and pale grey yellow throat, red eyes, black eye stripe, top of head, and collar, brown nape, sky blue and moss chest, grey brown upper wing coverts, pale yellow under wing coverts, pale grey brown under wings and tail, grey blue under tail coverts, extremely long, thin, curved, grey brown central tail feathers, pale grey green yellow feet and legs with dark grey curved talons, and a long, curved, almost black beak. It's perched on a brown, curved branch. The background is lightish french grey.

October 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM

monicapelger.bsky.social

@monicapelger.bsky.social

#Black&White by the Stork triplets and a #Colourful European Beeeater for AB’s #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

October 21, 2026 at 6:44 AM

Przemysław Dolny · Birds by the Sea

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European bee-eaters – Poland's most colourful bird? 🌈 Turquoise, gold and rust. Beka Nature Reserve, June–July.
🇵🇱 Żołny, Rezerwat Beka.

#birds #birdphotography #beeeater

October 22, 2026 at 1:02 PM

Helen's Eye (aka Helen's Photos)

@helenseye.bsky.social

#Pairs #BirdoftheDay #BirdPhotography #AfricanWildlife #Kestrel #BeeEater

I don't think they were meant to be a 'pair' but it's not often I get two species like that on one branch! Southern Carmine Bee-eater, and a Kestrel (Lesser, I think) Kruger, NP. SA

October 19, 2026 at 11:57 AM

Wildlife Photographer

@mongoose62.bsky.social

A Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus), photographed yesterday at Kepong Botanic Gardens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

#BlueTailedBeeEater #MeropsPhilippinus #BeeEater #KepongBotanicGardens #KualaLumpur #Malaysia #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfMalaysia #NikonZ9

With its vibrant green plumage, warm orange throat, striking black eye stripe and long blue tail streamers, this elegant bee-eater is a beautiful sight. Its long, curved bill is perfectly adapted for catching flying insects, including bees and dragonflies.

A wonderful encounter with Malaysia’s colourful birdlife, captured against a soft, natural background.

October 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM

Don McCrady

@djmccrady.bsky.social

Birds of South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Carmine bee-eaters, wire-tailed swallows, white-crowned lapwing, little bee-eater, gray heron, little heron, and buffalo weaver.
#birds #BeeEater #swallows #wiretailedswallow #lapwing #heron #weaverbird #africa #zambia

October 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM

Birdingplaces

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The Little Bee-eater is our Sunday-bird of the week. Have a nice Sunday!

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#Birds #birdphotography #Beeeater #Birding #Africa photo uploaded to Birdingplaces by Joseph Lionceau