Blue-throated bee-eater

Blue-throated bee-eater
Danum Valley, Borneo, Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: M. viridis
Binomial name
Merops viridis
Linnaeus, 1758

The blue-throated bee-eater (Merops viridis) is a species of bird in the Meropidae family. It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Subspecies M. v. americanus of The Philippines is sometimes considered a distinct species, the rufous-crowned bee-eater, M. americanus.

In captivity

This species is very rare in captivity.The Weltvogelpark Walsrode in Germany kept this species between 1999 & 2004.

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