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.םותכ-ינומרע ונורג ,םילוכת וחצמו וייחל .תוכורא םיפנכ לעבו קוריב עובצ ובור ,הזר ,לודג קרקרש :קורי קרקרש .רוחשה ספה רסח ונורגב .תוכורא תויזכרמה ובנז תורבא .הרפרפא ובנז תיתחתו ינומרע עבצב ויפנכ תיתחת .םימ יוקמ תברקב םירוזפ םיצע םע םיחותפ ,הצחמל םיירבדמו םיירבדמ ,םישביו םימח םירוזא ולודיג תיב .ןאש תיבו ןדריה תעקבב רידנ ץיק רגודו ץראה ברעמב ,חיכש אל חרוא רבוע ץראב .א"ע 'גס ןילוח ... קרשו אברכ יב ביתיד אוהה אהו ... | ||||||||||
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Subspecies and Distribution.
M. p. chrysocercus Morocco to Algeria and from Senegal to L Chad. Winters in sub Saharan W Africa. M. p. persicus Nyle Delta (Egypt), N Israel and SE Turkey, S to Persian Gulf, and E to N shores of Caspian and Aral Seas, S shores of L Balkhash, N Afghanistan and N and W India. Winters mainly in E tropical Africa. | ||||||||||
Descriptive notes.Slightly large than the European Bee-eater, slim with long wings. 30-31 cm, 38-50 g, wingspan 45-49 cm.Male of nominate race with upperparts grass-green in fresh plumage, wings and tail more golden-green, sometimes all parts except rump quite strongly olive, with bleaching or wear turns more bluish, particularly on tertials and rump. Wings with narrow, dusky trailing edge. Forehead narrowly white by bill, shading backward to powder-blue, but often, possibly immature birds, forehead yellowish and blue eyebrow poorly developed. Broad black eyeband, cheeks broadly blue but may be narrowly white. chin bright yellow, sometimes dull yellow, throat rufous, underparts bright green. Bill black, long and slender. Iris claret. Female like male, but tail streamers average shorter. Race chrysocercus has upperparts more golden, and is slightly smaller than nominate, though streamers often longer. Habitat.Semi-desert and desert, steppe, dunes, saline pans, cultivation, thorn woodland and sandy slopes with small gullies, pits, and embankments.Breeds mainly in sand deserts near water fringed with bushes and acacia or tamarisks. Food and FeedingMain diet based on bees and wasps in Asia and dragonflies in Africa. Takes much greater diversity of airborne insects, almost exclusively honeybees when they are plentiful.Catches very small insects as well as large beetles, locusts and cicadas. Feeds by making long pursuit flights from perch and even from ground. Returns to perch to knock prey and, if hymenoptera, to rub its tail. Breeding.Mar-Jun. Monogamous. Nests solitarily, or in loose colonies, often forms mixed colonies with European Bee-eater.Sited in bank of canal or ditch, low cliff, sandy mud plain also in earthen shoulder of metalled road. Burrow 1-3 m long depending on softness of soil, nearly straight, in cliff horizontal and in level ground declining 15-20 degrees. 4-8 eggs, incubation 23-26 days. Movements.Migratory, moving in small and large flocks, mainly by day, passing on broad front often at considerable height, vacates breeding grounds in Aug.On long sea crossing obliged to migrate at night. Saharan population winters in sub Saharan W Africa. Asian population winters partly in Indea, Pakistan and Yemen, but mainly in E half of Africa from Ethiopia to Natal. Status and ConservationNot globally treatened. Common and widespread.Israel.In Israel subspecies M. p. persicus. Uncommon passage migrant, mainly in eastern, and quite rare breeding summer visitor in Jordan River Valley. |
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