The bee-eating kite is a bird of the Accipitridae family. This bird’s plumage has a more special structure than other birds of prey. They have very little hair, mostly hair that grows close together. each other at high density.
This helps them avoid bee intrusion. Therefore, even dangerous bees such as bumblebees and hornets are victims of this bird.
When hunting, bee-eating kites often fly quite low to find honeycombs on trees or cliffs instead of choosing other animals to eat like other birds of prey. and it is also the only (known) natural enemy of the Asian hornet.
When the kite in the video below discovered the honeycomb, it gently landed and leisurely used its sharp curved beak to eat the bee larvae inside, to the helplessness of the wasps.
Narrow nostrils with a layer of hard hair like small scales on the head or chemicals in the feathers help protect the kite from dangerous wasps.
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