Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Sarina resident Kath Redmond captured photographs of the bird, aptly named the rainbow bee-eater, when they ...

Holiday-starved Brits aren't the only ones travelling far and wide this summer, as a family of rainbow birds have flown thousands of miles for a stay in Norfolk. Seven bee-eaters – brightly coloured ...

There are some Australian birds whose pose and colour really capture an observer’s attention. This Rainbow Bee-eater stood out on a branch as I happened to be taking some photos in the Northern ...

Bee-eaters have been captured on video having made what is believed to be a historic return to the UK. The footage shows the rainbow-coloured birds in flight and nesting in a sand quarry near Cromer ...

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, ...

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Rainbow birds normally seen in Africa appear to be establishing a regular breeding colony in the UK for the first time as climate change brings hotter summers. Eight bee-eaters have returned to a ...

The RSPB has reported that the colony of about eight of the exotic rainbow birds who have been nesting at a quarry in Trimingham had a successful hatching on Wednesday, July 20. The bee-eaters have ...

Rare bee-eater birds have returned to the same nesting site in the UK for the first time ever. The colourful birds, which are usually found in North Africa or the Mediterranean, have come back to UK ...

Rare "rainbow birds" trying to breed in the UK was a "worrying sign of how our climate is changing", the RSPB said. The charity said bee-eaters had been making nest burrows in a small quarry at ...

Rainbow bee eater, Wynnum, Queensland, 2021. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of ...