Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) - 7 January 2013 KM 78 Rama II Road, Samut Sakhon Province, Thailand Photo © 2013 Joseph Morlan
This bird was foraging from the same high wires as the previous Green Bee-eater. In direct comparison the Blue-tailed is quite a bit larger. This back-lit individual seems to have molted its long spiky central tail-feathers. Digiscoped with Panasonic DMC-LX5 | Nikon FieldScope III | 30XWA |hand-held (no adapter). |