Meet the rainbow bee, a.k.a., Homalictus fijiensis, an important plant pollinator that's distributed throughout Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia, and the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean. Noted ...

A native Australian bird, protected under state and federal law, is being shut out of its nesting grounds a month before a two-day festival at the site. A colony of the migratory rainbow bee-eater has ...

There are some Australian birds whose pose and colour really capture an observer’s attention. This Rainbow Bee-eater stood out on a branch as I happened to be taking some photos in the Northern ...