honeyguide

• a variation of honey guide.
  honey guide

  noun

  any of several small, usually dull-colored birds of the family Indicatoridae, of Africa and southern Asia, certain species of which are noted for their habit of leading people or animals to nests of honeybees in order to feed on the honey, larvae, and wax of the nests after they have been broken open.

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But in a rare and millennia-old collaboration, honey hunters in Africa get help finding bees’ nests from a small brown bird called the greater honeyguide.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 17, 2024

Conversely, the guttural trill-grunt signal the Yao use to communicate with the honeyguide can help scare off animals they find dangerous.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

The aptly named honeyguide will lead them to a bee nest so they can harvest the honey.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2023

An example is seen in the yellow-rumped honeyguide, a bird whose males defend beehives because the females feed on their wax.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

“After a while, the man came upon a rabbit. He lifted his bow, but the honeyguide flew over his head and cried, ‘Leave it, O hunter.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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