h Oriental Honey Buzzard at Sepilok by HILL, Chris - Borneo Bird Images

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Oriental Honey Buzzard

Latin Name : Pernis ptilorhyncus

Site Name : Sepilok

Photographer : HILL, Chris

Date : 0000-00-00

Notes : This female Honey Buzzard is attacking an empty giant honey bee (Apis dorsata) comb to eat the wax after the bees themselves have migrated to a new area where the forest is flowering. The abandoned comb is hanging from a Koompasia tree above the canopy walkway at Sepilok. If the bees are in residence they attack intruders viciously to drive them away.