Kirik-kirik dan tiong-lampu (Bee-eaters & Rollers)
White-fronted Bee-eater
Merops bullockoides
- epik
- 43 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Lives in complex family clans where helpers babysit the chicks. Cliff-colony nester that beats bees on a branch first.
- Habitat
- Open savanna, wooded grassland, and semi-open dry woodland, typically near rivers, gullies, or other earthen banks/cliffs it needs for nest burrows; elevations roughly 1,400-2,000 m
- Fakta menarik
- White-fronted Bee-eaters live in dense cliff/riverbank colonies (often 100-200+ birds) organized into extended-family "clans," with one of the most complex cooperative-breeding social systems known in birds — non-breeding helpers, usually close kin, assist at roughly half of all nesting attempts.
- Sebaran
- Sub-equatorial (Afrotropical) Africa, from Angola and Gabon in the west across to Tanzania and Kenya, south through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to northeastern South Africa; sedentary/non-migratory across its range
- Makanan
- Almost exclusively flying insects caught by aerial sallying from a perch; heavily dominated by bees and wasps (Hymenoptera, ~87% of prey — roughly half honey bees, ~20% stingless Trigona bees), with beetles (~6%), flies (~5%), and other insects making up the rest.
- Ukuran
- 0,23 m
- Masa hidup
- 5 tahun
