Birds eat bees

FEW animals can stop the ground against angry bees, but this crested honey seem to be intact. Although it belongs to the same family as birds, flesh-eating kites, hawks and eagles, the main meal is pups and larvae-the incubation in the nests of pups and larvae. Buzzardlar will be at lunch in honeycombs when Taiwan encounters a honey bee colony captured by photographer Staffan Widstrand in the West.

Honey Buzzardları (Pernis Ptilorhynchus) A series of adaptations can be fed with angry, sting insects. The feathers have central shafts that are plunged into thorns and then to smaller Barbule, which is the separation of the vessels into capillaries. This Barbeles is connected to each other and creates a shield against the incoming streets and wakes thicker in sensitive areas such as beaks, eyes, nostrils and necks. A few additional defenses help to resist painful piercings: a special membrane covers his eyes and folds his feathers that can serve as a substance and a repellent.

To find the buzzing hunting, honey refrigerators, frequent forests-neck bees and donkeys near the farms, rivers and Glades are easier to search for donkeys. After entering a colony, birds use their fat legs, claws and toes to dig the quarry. To penetrate the nests hanging from the trees, he will first start his claws like a Buzzard, a MMA fighter who goes to the knocker. As the unity in the air driving, more honey joins the fridge to wear out, breaks down the slot with pieces, then flies to the nearby trees or for feast. Sometimes, while the angry colony struggles to fight them, the birds even burn into a nest. Birds only shake their heads easily.

Honeybens can feed angry, stinging insects thanks to a series of adaptations.

These heads are quite small-pigeon-like, at the end of the long gush-like necks-the crown-like hill, roughly 155 centimeters (5 meters) wings, such as a regal atmosphere. They are routinely mixed with other birds, routinely mixed with other birds in terms of color depending on the life stage or geography – a case of imitation when copying the physical or behavioral properties of another species. In Raptors, this usually occurs when a weaker species, such as honey Buzzard, imitates a stronger species and provides some protection from the attack. In one example, natural scientists miscarried as a honey Buzzardini as a Osprey, and fed a fish diet for several weeks before offering a honeycomb to a visited colleague. According to his name, Buzzard returned for seconds.

Honey honey refuses change along the East Asia and Indian sub -continent and a familiar landscape from sea level to 1,800 meters (5,900 feet). Some flocks to produce hundreds of kilometers to produce in Siberia, Northeast China, North Korea, Taiwan and Japan. In autumn, birds returning to the wintering areas in China capture a tail wind carrying 680 kilometers (420 miles) along the South China Sea. However, climate change can endanger this success as wind patterns change and threaten to ground birds unless they are adapted.

Some crested honey refrigerators seem to adapt to changing environmental conditions by following their prey to new regions. In the last 20 years, bird landscapes have increased on the Arabian Peninsula, where the desert with sparse -populated desert has recently seen rapid growth in farms, suburban parks, golf fields and tree plantations – an excellent habitat for hillless honey refrigerators and bees to which they are connected.

A version of this story It appeared initially biographicalAn independent magazine about nature and renewal supported by the Academy of Sciences of California.

• Jude Isabella

  Published 9 April 2025

  Jude Isabella, biographical. The main interests, which have been a science journalist for more than 30 years, are environment, ecology and archeology in his own article. Jude is the founding editor Hakai MagazineIt is an online broadcast that focuses on coastal science and societies, which he has directed as the editor -in -chief for 10 years. The magazine was excited to combine jude after folding due to financial restrictions RighteousThe thoughtful scope of global biological diversity by his colleagues and his expertise in maritime protection biographical.

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