Black Bee-eater (Merops gularis)

Family
Meropidae (Bee-eaters)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
Shaw, 1798

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, heavily degraded former forest, dry savanna, inland wetlands, plantations.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (11)...)

Black Bee-eater (Merops gularis) [XC351753]
by Pawe\u0142 Szyma\u0144ski from Kakum NP (walkway), Ghana (call)

Black Bee-eater (Merops gularis) [XC134446]
by Rod Cassidy from Sanaga-Maritime, Littoral Region, Cameroon (call)

Subspecies
Formerly sometimes joined with Blue-headed Bee-eater (Merops muelleri) in genus Meropiscus. Has been placed with other small, round-winged species lacking tail-streamers in genus Mellitophagus, comprising present species and Blue-headed Bee-eater (Merops muelleri), Little Bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Blue-breasted Bee-eater (Merops variegatus), Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater (Merops oreobates), Red-throated Bee-eater (Merops bulocki) and White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides). Subspecies intergrade in south-eastern Nigeria.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

gularis Shaw, 1798 - Sierra Leone, south-eastern Guinea and southern Mali east to south-eastern Nigeria.
australis (Reichenow, 1885) - South-eastern Nigeria or western Cameroon through Congo Basin to western Uganda and northern Angola.

References
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Files:

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