The Little Bee-eater weighs in at only 15g and a length of 16cm. It is mostly bright grass-green with a distinctive canary-yellow throat separated from buff underparts by a black line across the ...

Two pairs of rare bee-eaters are nesting and raising chicks in a quarry in Cumbria, prompting new speculation the exotic visitors will colonise the UK. The birds, normally found nesting in ...

Greater honeyguide chick killing little bee-eater chicks. Credit: Claire Spottiswoode Spottiswoode filmed this brutal behaviour in 2011, and she showed that honeyguides are a huge problem.

Eight exotic bee-eater birds have hatched in Britain, an extraordinary feat that has only been recorded twice in the last 60 years. A colony of the sun-loving birds has established on the Isle of ...

For example, honeyguides parasitising little bee-eaters lay smaller eggs in their nests than do honeyguides parasitising larger hosts.

About the size of a starling, bee-eaters are unmistakable with their claret-red backs, yellow throats and turquoise bellies. They eat bees as well as other flying insects such as dragonflies.