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- noun Plural form of
bee-eater .
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Examples
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This species is the largest of all the bee-eaters.
Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni 2011
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This species is the largest of all the bee-eaters.
Mystery bird: blue-bearded bee-eater, Nyctyornis athertoni 2011
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And the bit that really interested me was that they are taking the same route as a number of species of falcons, cuckoos, nightjars and bee-eaters.
Archive 2009-07-01 Glenda Larke 2009
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And the bit that really interested me was that they are taking the same route as a number of species of falcons, cuckoos, nightjars and bee-eaters.
A fantastic journey Glenda Larke 2009
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Among land birds is a rich assortment consisting of warblers, babblers, bee-eaters, bulbuls, buntings, chats, partridges and quails.
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Among this lot are motmots, bee-eaters and rollers.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Among this lot are motmots, bee-eaters and rollers.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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In some places the steep banks were dotted with the holes which lead into the nests of bee-eaters.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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