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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Exotic bee-eater returns to UK for second summer in a row

The European bee-eater, pictured in Norfolk last year
The European bee-eater, pictured in Norfolk last year, is more commonly found in the southern Mediterranean. Photograph: Mike Edgecombe/RSPB

With plumage cherry red, ultramarine, turquoise and yellow, usually found streaking like multicoloured darts across the skies of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Spain, they present as an epitome of tropical glamour.

British birdwatchers are aflutter to have found European bee-eaters swooping and burrowing in a disused quarry in Norfolk for the second summer in a row.

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