Greater honeyguide

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Greater honeyguide

The Greater honeyguide occurs from Senegal through the Sahel to Ethiopia, extending south to many areas of southern Africa, where it lives in a wide variety of habitats. It mainly eats bees’ products, and is famous for its tendency to lead humans to bees nests. It is a brood parasite, laying in a wide variety of bird nests. The female lays its egg while the hosts is out, destroying any existing eggs already in the nest. The eggs are laid in series of 4-7, each in a different nest, laying about 21 eggs in the whole breeding season. The chicks stays in the nest for roughly 38 days, after which they are fed by the host for 7-30, usually 7-10 days after leaving.

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