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Colombia – Llanos Life

  • a food for the chicks
  • Southern Carmine Bee-eaters
  • are sociable…
  • and gathering together
  • They nest in burrows…
  • tunneled in sandy banks…
  • Nest is dug by both sexes
  • Chicks hide in the holes…
  • which are a 1-3 m long tunnel
  • Carmine Bee-eater seduction
  • Squabbling bee-eaters…
  • when a friend arrives for…
  • a courteous meeting
  • Male & female look alike
  • Female lays 1-6 white eggs…
  • incubated by both sexes
  • Chicks stay for 11-20 days
  • Elephant family at sunset
  • the matriarch is upset…
  • and pushed brutally…
  • the teenager from her access…
  • to the soil with minerals…
  • reserved for her and the baby
  • the correction is strong