What is Honeyguide?
{{Automatic Taxobox | name = Honeyguides | image = IndicatorProdotiscusKeulemans.jpg | image_caption = [[Greater honeyguide]] and<br>[[brown-backed honeybird]] | taxon = Indicatoridae | authority = [[William Swainson|Swainson]], 1837 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''[[Indicator (genus)|Indicator]]''<br/> ''[[Melichneutes]]''<br/> ''[[Melignomon]]''<br/> ''[[Prodotiscus]]'' }} '''Honeyguides''' ([[family (biology)|family]] '''Indicatoridae''') are near-[[passerine]] [[birds]] of the order [[Piciformes]]. They are also known as 'indicator birds', or 'honey birds'. They have an [[Old World]] tropical distribution, with most species in [[Africa]] and two in [[Asia]]. These birds are known for their interaction with humans. One or two species will deliberately lead humans to bee colonies, so that they can feast on the [[grub]]s and [[beeswax]] that are left behind.<ref>Friedmann, Herbert 1955. ''The Honeyguides''. U.S. National Museum (Bulletin 208).</ref><ref>Short, Lester, and Jennifer Horne 2002. ''Toucans, barbets and honeyguides''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-854666-1}}</ref> == Brooding == The breeding behavior of eight species in ''Indicator'' and ''Prodotiscus'' is known. They are all [[brood parasite]]s that lay an egg in a nest of another species. Most prefer hole-nesting species, often the related [[Lybiidae|barbets]] and [[woodpecker]]s, but ''Prodotiscus'' parasitizes cup-nesters such as [[white-eye]]s and [[Old World warbler|warblers]]. Honeyguide nestlings have been known to throw out their host's chicks from the nest. They have hooks on their [[beak]]s with which they puncture the hosts' eggs or kill the nestlings.<ref name=EoB>{{cite book |editor=Forshaw, Joseph|author= Short, Lester L.|year=1991|title=Encyclopaedia of animals: birds|publisher= Merehurst Press|location=London|pages= 155|isbn= 1-85391-186-0}}</ref> African honeyguide birds are known to lay their eggs in underground nests of other bee-eating bird species. The honeyguide chicks kill the hatchlings of the host