| 词条 | Southern carmine bee-eater |
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| name = Southern carmine bee-eater | image = Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (16732824032).jpg | image2 = Merops nubicoides.jpg | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = [1] | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Coraciiformes | familia = Meropidae | genus = Merops | species = M. nubicoides | binomial = Merops nubicoides | binomial_authority = (Des Murs & Pucheran, 1846) }} The southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (formerly carmine bee-eater) occurs across sub-equatorial Africa. DescriptionThis species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, striking bird, predominantly carmine in colouration, but with the crown and undertail coverts blue. Range and movementsIt occurs from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, the eastern DRCongo and Kenya. This is a migratory species, spending the breeding season, between August and November, in Zimbabwe, before moving south to South Africa for the summer months, and then migrating to equatorial Africa from March to August. Diet and foragingTheir diet is made up primarily of bees and other flying insects, and their major hunting strategy involves hawking flying insects from perch. Perches may include branches of vegetation or even the backs of large animals, such as the kori bustard. They are attracted to wildfires because of the flushed insects, and are often seen circling high in the air. They circle larger animals and even cars to catch the insects that are trying to escape. Habitat and breedingIts usual habitat included low-altitude river valleys and floodplains, preferring vertical banks suitable for tunneling when breeding, but readily digging vertical burrows in the level surface of small salt islands. This is a highly sociable species, gathering in large flocks, in or out of breeding season. They roost communally in trees or reedbeds, and disperse widely during the day. Nesting is at the end of a 1 to 2 meter long burrow in an earthen bank, where they lay from 2 to 5 eggs. GalleryReferences{{More footnotes|date=September 2010}}1. ^{{IUCN|id=22683772 |title=Merops nubicoides |assessor=BirdLife International |assessor-link=BirdLife International |version=2013.2 |year=2012 |accessdate=26 November 2013}}
External links{{Wikispecies|Merops nubicoides|Southern carmine bee-eater}}{{Commons category|Merops nubicoides}}
3 : Merops (genus)|Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa|Birds described in 1846 |
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