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| Blue-tailed Bee-eater Merops philippinus javanicus
- Mating sequence |
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| Photographer : | © Viral Patel and Pankaj Maheria |
| Location : | Balaram Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary, Banaskantha District, Gujarat, India |
| Date : |
3 May 2015 |
| English synonyms: | Green-headed Bee-eater, Brown-breasted Bee-eater |
| Bird Family : | Meropidae - Bee-eaters |
| Bird Group : | CORACIIFORMES |
| Red Data Status : | Least Concern |
| Remarks : | We visit again the same place for any new development for Blue-tailed Bee-eater. This time we saw that they are busy in courtship and mating. Female seat at one place for longer time. Male bring the prey for female. First male kill the prey and clean it. After that he give it to female. Male repeated this process many time. We observed around 3 hours. During this time male bring prey for around 11 time. Pair did mating for two time during this time. This video saw there exchange of prey for mating. After exchange they did mating. You can watch video on following link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0g-mD4cHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pri0QDuTbu0 - PM
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