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Merops rubicoides
large graceful bee-eater predominantly red and pink but with a turquoise crown and blue rump. A bold bird usually hawking in loose groups.
a common summer visitor to north and east Botswana. Breeds colonially on steep riverbanks where each pair inhabits an excavated tunnel
this individual was hawking along a freshly cut lucerne crop close to the Limpopo River
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