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Chapters: Greater Honeyguide, Indicator, Malaysian Honeyguide, Yellow-Rumped Honeyguide, Honeybird. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies. The Greater Honeyguide is a resident breeder in sub-Saharan Africa. It is found in a variety of habitats that have trees, especially dry open woodland, but not in the West African jungle. The Greater Honeyguide is about 20cm long and weighs about 50 g. Like all African honeyguides, it has bold white patches on the sides of the tail. The male has dark grey-brown upperparts and white underparts, with a black throat. The wings are streaked whitish, and there is a yellow shoulder patch. The bill is pink. The female is duller and lacks the black throat. Her bill is blackish. Immature birds are very distinctive, having olive-brown upperparts with a white rump and yellow throat and upper breast. The Greater Honeyguide feeds primarily on the contents of bee colonies ("hives"): bee eggs, larvae and pupae; waxworms; and beeswax. (Honeyguides are among the few birds that can digest wax.) It frequently associates with other honeyguides at hives; immatures dominate adults, and immatures of this species dominate all others. Like other honeyguides, the Greater Honeyguide enters hives while the bees are torpid in the early morning, feeds at abandoned hives (African bees desert more often than those of the temperate zones), and scavenges at hives robbed by people or other large animals, notably the Ratel or honey badger. Most remarkably, it also guides people to hives. Guiding is unpredictable and is m...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=59978


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158398515
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158398514
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Greater Honeyguide, Indicator, Malaysian Honeyguide, Yellow-Rumped Honeyguide, Honeybird
  • Width: 229 mm


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