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PLEASE! If you see any mistakes, I'm 100% sure that I have wrongly identified some birds.
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  The Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) (formerly Carmine Bee-eater) occurs across sub-equatorial Africa, ranging from KwaZulu-Natal and Namibia to Gabon, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, striking bird, predominantly carmine in colouration, but with the crown and undertail coverts blue. Its 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 1-2m long burrow in an earthen bank, where they lay from 2-5 eggs. 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. Their 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 try to escape.   Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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Listen to the Southern Carmine Bee-eater
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 Conservation status
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.
International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 12th of November 2014 Location: Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana  Southern Carmine Bee-eater - 12th of November 2014 - Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana
 Southern Carmine Bee-eater - 12th of November 2014 - Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana
 Southern Carmine Bee-eater - 12th of November 2014 - Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana
 Southern Carmine Bee-eater - 12th of November 2014 - Chobe Game Lodge, Botswana
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