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Volume 24, Number 19
05 October 2005

pp 3353-3518

Blue-tailed Bee-eater with Dragonfly - There are two species of bee-eater in Singapore: the blue-throated and the blue-tailed, the latter nesting in sand and dirt mounds. They particularly like catching large insects such as dragonflies to feed their young chicks. The female blue-throated bee-eater depicted has alighted on a branch to check that all is clear before flying to the nest hole. The photographer, Graeme Guy, took this picture from a car covered with camouflage netting and parked near the nest. The image was shot on film with a Canon EOS-1N camera, a 500mm lens with a 1.4x extender, with fill-in flash. (1/125, f9, Kodak VS film 100 ISO). Graeme Guy runs a Signal Transduction Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, which is situated at Biopolis, a new biomedical hub funded by A-Star, a Singapore Government sponsored agency.

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