We stayed the night of March 12 to 13, 2019 in Ella, Sri Lanka at the Ella Gap Panorama on a hill overlooking the valley. Our wonderful guide, Sanjay, of Lanka Tracker, noticed a chestnut-headed bee-eater going in and out of a hole in the side of the hill at the bottom of the hill. We saw the bee-eater both on the way in to the hotel and out, but I was never able to get a photo of it.
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| Illustration of a chestnut-headed bee-eater from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. |
I've thought of that bee-eater many times since, wishing I could have gotten that photo. I really love the bee-eaters. It was ssp. leschenaulti, found in southern India, Sri Lanka, northern India and Nepal east to southern China (Yunnan), Indochina and the Malay Peninsula.
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