Year: 2020

Medium: Photography

Medium Detail: Digital Photograph printed on Bauhaus Photo Matte High White 230gsm

Number and Edition: 1/100

Dimensions: Length: 80cm; Width: 60cm; Depth: 0cm; Weight: 0kg

State: Unframed

Location (Postcode): 3377

Country: Australia

I photographed this Rainbow Bee-Eater near Ararat, Victoria. They are gorgeous and have just migrated from tropical Queensland and Papua New Guinea! They come all the way here to mate. If David Bowie was a bird, this would be it! "Rainbow Bee-eaters gather in small flocks before returning to summer breeding areas after over-wintering in the north (apart from the resident northern populations). Both males and females select a suitable nesting site in a sandy bank and dig a long tunnel (average length: 89.4 cm) leading to a nesting chamber, which is often lined with grasses. Both parents incubate the eggs and both feed the young, sometimes with the assistance of auxiliaries (helpers). The Rainbow Bee-Eater is a spectacular bird. With its green, blue, chestnut and yellow plumage, its slim build, slender curved bill and distinctive streamers that extend from the end of its tail, it is simply beautiful. Bee-Eaters are a familiar sight in many lightly-timbered parts of mainland Australia, where they often perch on fence-posts or overhead wires, then launch after flying insects, flying swiftly, sometimes with rapid twists and turns, before snapping the insect in its bill, and returning to the perch to eat it. Research featured in the 'State of Australia's Birds 2015' headline and regional reports shows a marked decline for the Rainbow Bee-eater (and some other aerial insectivories) in the East Coast region, where reporting rates for this species have dropped by over 50% in the since 2001." - from https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/rainbow-bee-eater

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