Green Bee-eater
Merops orientalis - Guêpier d'Orient
Systematics
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Order:
Coraciiformes
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Family:
Méropidés
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Genus:
Merops
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Species:
orientalis
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 18 cm
- Wingspan: 29 à 30 cm.
- Weight: 15 à 20 g
Geographic range
Description identification
Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis) is a species of bird in the Meropidae family.
Subspecific information 8 subspecies
- Merops orientalis orientalis (w India east to Bangladesh)
- Merops orientalis viridissimus (Senegal to n and c Ethiopia)
- Merops orientalis cleopatra (Nile Valley. Egypt. to n Sudan)
- Merops orientalis cyanophrys (s Israel, w and s Arabia)
- Merops orientalis muscatensis (c and e Arabia)
- Merops orientalis beludschicus (s Iraq to nw India)
- Merops orientalis ceylonicus (Sri Lanka)
- Merops orientalis ferrugeiceps (ne India to sc China and Indochina)
Foreign names
- Guêpier d'Orient,
- Abejaruco esmeralda oriental,
- abelharuco-verde,
- Smaragdspint,
- smaragdgyurgyalag,
- Kleine Groene Bijeneter,
- Gruccione verde piccolo,
- grön dvärgbiätare,
- Beryllbieter,
- včelárik východný,
- vlha proměnlivá,
- Lille Grøn Biæder,
- pikkumehiläissyöjä,
- abellerol maragda oriental,
- Mýsvelgur,
- żołna wschodnia,
- zaļais bišķērājs,
- smaragdni čebelar,
- Малая зелёная щурка,
- ミドリハチクイ,
- 绿喉蜂虎,
- นกจาบคาเล็ก,
- 綠喉蜂虎,
Habitat
Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Freshwater Springs and Oases ; Desert : Hot ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Pastureland, Plantations, Rural Gardens
Sources of information
- Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan - vol4, Salim Ali and Dillon Ripley
- Birds of Western Africa, Nick Borrow and Ron Demey
- Martins-pêcheurs, martins-chasseurs, guêpiers et rolliers, Hilary Fry et Kathie Fry
- Vol. 6 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliott-Jordi Sargatal
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
- IOC World Bird List (v11.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2019.
Other sources of interest
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