Blue-cheeked Bee-eaters at D'Arros

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Dinantis Beukes)

Dinantis Beukes has reported five Blue-cheeked bee-eater at the east side of D'Arros on 20-25 April.

In 2017, SBRC reclassified this species to an annual visitor in small numbers to the granitic islands and Amirantes but retained as a vagrant further south (where Madagascar Bee-eater is a likely confusion species). SBRC continues to collect all reports. These are automatically accepted unless there is something unusual in terms of timing or numbers.