blue-bearded

Response: This is an adult blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni.

Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni

The blue-bearded bee-eater exploits the defensive behavior exhibited by giant honey bees, Apis dorsata, by deliberately provoking guard bees to defend their nest.

Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni

Although mainly foraging using aerial sallies, the blue-bearded bee-eater also gleans insects from tree bark.

Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni

Here is a video of a blue-bearded bee-eater sitting in a tree in dense forest, looking alert, but it is not doing much else filmed in India: You are invited to review all of the daily mystery birds by going to their dedicated graphic index page.

Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni

The blue-bearded warriors in their light mail shirts could not endure punishment as could the heavier-armored Bossonians.

Wings in the Night

Giant black slaves slouched along, jostling blue-bearded wanderers from the Shemitish cities, ragged nomads from the surrounding deserts, traders and adventurers from all the lands of the East.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan

But the tide swept northwestward, and the blue-bearded kings died before the altars of their potbellied gods, and their squat-walled cities were drenched in blood.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian

We ought before this to have mentioned that Lope, being rather a light inconsiderate little man, his wife was accustomed, in all grave matters, to seek the counsel and ministry of her confessor Fray Simon, a sturdy, broad-shouldered, blue-bearded, bullet-headed friar of the neighboring convent of San

The Alhambra

There was the story of Doffue Martling, a large blue-bearded

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

I knew they'd find me soon if I lay there - I killed three of the blue-bearded beasts, by Ishtar!

The Conan Chronicles