MENU TROPHIQUE DU GUEPIER D’EUROPE Merops apiaster L. DANS LA ZONE MONTAGNEUSE DE ZIBAN (BISKRA, ALGERIA

Abstract

Our study is carried out in three honey-producing regions, Djamoura, M'Chouneche and El-Kantara, using analysis of reject pellets to study the diet of the European Bee-eater Analysis of reject pellets revealed a high species richness in the M'Chouneche (S M’Chouneche = 51 species). The species Apis mellifera accounts for a large percentage (AR% = 70, 65%) of the total prey eaten by European Bee- eaters at El-Kantara. The fairness value (E) is E = 0.77 in Djamoura, with the recorded diversity value is H’= 1.20 bits. In the El-Kantara site the fairness value is less than 0.5, which explains a certain dominance of a prey species (Apis mellifera) in the Bee-eater menu in El-Kantara.