Home»All Albums & Groups»Kenya — January, 2015»Samburu — Merops pusillus

~ Were there ever a bird more aptly named than Merops pusillus, Little Bee-eater? Diminutive to the point of being hard-to-see, the Little Bee-eater might be easily overlooked, were it not for its habit of regularly flicking its tail-feathers. This bee-eater had perched in the midst of especially fearsome acacia spines which would deter most mammals from any sort of direct engagement. Yet the Little Bee-eater found it to be a congenial perch, relatively safe from predators, unoccupied by others. The intense blue above its eye-mask was striking.