With bills like a pair of pincers, bee eaters have amazing insect-catching skills. They can anticipate where an insect would ...

A European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) holds a bee tightly in its beak. Known for their agility and vibrant colors, these birds expertly catch insects mid-air. Before eating, they skillfully remove ...

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, ...

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, ...