Rosy Bee-eaters return to the Ogooué's low-water sandbanks

Two Rosy Bee-eaters (Merops malimbicus) were seen on 7 August at Lambaréné, along the Ogooué near the Schweitzer hospital. Once in view the bird is hard to confuse with anything else on the river: slate-grey above, deep rose-pink from throat to belly, a clean white stripe running