the most exotic-looking of European birds, the Bee-eater (Merofis afiaster) is in fact a representative of a group mainly confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. So far as the western portion of its range is concerned it is a characteristically Mediterranean species, though it has bred occasionally in Central Europe. To the British Isles it is a rare vagrant, sometimes in small flocks, ...
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