# Bienenfresser würgt Speiballen aus im FFH-Gebiet Kaiserstuhl

- By: Hwbund
- Date: 2017-05-17
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bienenfresser_w%C3%BCrgt_Speiballen_aus_im_FFH-Gebiet_Kaiserstuhl.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/b/bd/Bienenfresser_w%C3%BCrgt_Speiballen_aus_im_FFH-Gebiet_Kaiserstuhl.jpg/1920px-Bienenfresser_w%C3%BCrgt_Speiballen_aus_im_FFH-Gebiet_Kaiserstuhl.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) on an branch, with open beak. After the European bee-eater was considered extinct in Germany in the 1980s, it has been spreading increasingly since the 1990s. It can be viewed as a climate winner that settles wherever it can breed (steep clay walls) and find sufficient preys (especially large insects). The Kaiserstuhl is an ideal area to observe the European bee-eater.