A bee-eater is a bird with a bright and memorable appearance. Once seen, it is difficult to confuse it with other birds. It inhabits mainly the southern regions of the planet. Bee-eaters got their ...

One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

A pair of Europe’s most colorful birds were spotted in central Germany yesterday after having returned to their breeding grounds from their winter grounds in Africa. Merops apiaster, commonly known as ...

THE paragraph in NATURE of March 28, 1918, p. 70, upon a paper in which Mr. W. Rowan describes the defæcation of the nestlings of the British kingfisher, leads me to mention the habits of a bird also ...