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Green Bee-Eater

Green Bee-Eater

While exploring the rocky desert in the west of Saudi Arabia we found this amazing huge green spot. It turned out to be water fed by sewage run of. Nature did r...
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While exploring the rocky desert in the west of Saudi Arabia we found this amazing huge green spot. It turned out to be water fed by sewage run of. Nature did recover creating this huge green oasis exploding with birdlife! One of them being a Green Bee-Eater
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Jeddah, Makkah, SA

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