8-letter Birds that contain B

List of 8-letter Birds that contain B

1

Bee-eater

Merops apiaster

A brilliantly colored aerial hunter that catches bees, wasps, and other stinging insects in mid-flight — then systematically beats the insect against a perch and wipes the stinger clean before swallowing.

2

Bluebird

Sialia sialis (Eastern); Sialia mexicana (Western); Sialia currucoides (Mountain)

A small bright-blue thrush native to North America — a beloved garden bird whose population was rescued from near-collapse in the mid-1900s through one of America's most successful citizen-science conservation campaigns.

3

Hornbill

Bucerotidae (family; 55 species)

A large tropical bird defined by its enormous brightly colored bill topped with a casque — a forest frugivore and icon of African and Asian biodiversity, and the subject of one of the most unusual nesting behaviors in the bird world.