Birds
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- and other flying insects...
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- like butterfly
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- Southern Carmine Bee-eater..
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- with a Skipper Butterfly...
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- a food for the chicks
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- Southern Carmine Bee-eaters
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- are sociable...
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- and gathering together
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- They nest in burrows...
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- tunneled in sandy banks...
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- Nest is dug by both sexes
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- Chicks hide in the holes...
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- which are a 1-3 m long tunnel
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- Carmine Bee-eater seduction
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- Squabbling bee-eaters...
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- when a friend arrives for...
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- a courteous meeting
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- Male & female look alike
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- Female lays 1-6 white eggs...
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- incubated by both sexes
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- Chicks stay for 11-20 days
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- Elephant family at sunset
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- the matriarch is upset ...
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- and pushed brutally...
