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Re: Bee-eater mass-roosting?

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Subject: Re: Bee-eater mass-roosting?
From: "Frank O'Connor" <>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:06:04 +0800

> According to Pizzey & Knight, Rainbow Bee-eater
> mass roostings occur in winter. Has anyone seen
> records of them occurring in mid-summer?

I have seen flocks of up to 200 Rainbow Bee-eaters at the Argyle Diamond Mine village in the east Kimberley of WA in late January of several years when I worked there in the 1990s.  They stay for a few nights and then pass on.

They were clearly on migration (presumably heading north) but from where?  They don't leave the south west until mid to late February.

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