{"id":129929,"date":"2026-10-21T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129929"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T07:32:25","slug":"european-bee-eater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/european-bee-eater\/","title":{"rendered":"European Bee-Eater"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>European Bee-Eater Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, for the first time recorded sightings of European Bee-eater in Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About European Bee-Eater<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a near <\/span><b>passerine bird<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the bee-eater family, Meropidae.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These brightly-colored birds <\/span><b>predominantly eat flying insects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, especially bees and wasps<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also <\/span><b>known as Golden Bee-eaters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because of their beautiful coloration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Appearance:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has dark, thick, and slightly downward curved bills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are commonly found near <\/span><b>freshwater systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and inhabit a variety of habitat types such as <\/span><b>forest, savanna, shrubland, grassland, and agricultural areas.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The have a broad distribution covering much of <\/span><b>Europe and Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Behavior: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>are migratory,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> diurnal birds that spend most of their time foraging for food.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Diet:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They are <\/span><b>carnivores (insectivores)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and mainly eat insects, especially bees, wasps, and hornets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Conservation Status<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>IUCN Red List:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/european-bee-eater-at-broken-bridge\/article71603997.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Bee-Eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. Read more about European Bee-Eater, Habitat, Behavior, Conservation Status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":129906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11031],"class_list":["post-129929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-european-bee-eater","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129976,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129929\/revisions\/129976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}