One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

Two southern carmine bee-eaters fly repeatedly at each other, using their long bills to ‘joust like fencers with swords,’ says Juan. He challenged himself to capture a close-up of this action before ...