Place: Saline de Siracusa, Syracuse, Sicily
Date: 24 May 2016.
[Merops apiaster, Family Meropidae, Order Coraciiformes, Wikipedia Entry: European bee-eater]
The sound of the European bee eater (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist maudoc)
Distribution of the European bee eater across the British Isles (borrowed from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 