White-fronted bee-eaters are found in the river banks and gullies of wooded grassland and pastures of sub-equatorial Africa. Their diet of insects, which is almost always honey bees, is caught either through rapid flight down from a low tree perch or during a slower hovering flight. These bee-eaters live in a very complex society, nesting in colonies made up of family clans where non-breeding birds become helpers for their breeding relatives.
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