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, ...
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Bee-eater with its catch

A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) holds a bee tightly in its beak. Known for their agility and vibrant colors, these ...
We often think of the male cardinal as our red bird, but there is another songbird in our woods whose feathers are all red. It's the male summer tanager. The summer tanager migrates south for winter, ...
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 ...