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 LC    Blue-cheeked Bee-eater* Id (Atlas):
    Merops persicus Vagrant

Description (10)
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Family
Meropidae (Bee-eaters)

Size
31 cm

First Described (Guide)
Pallas, 1773

Habitat
Hot desert. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (B), Algeria, Angola, Armenia (B), Azerbaijan (B), Bahrain, Benin (NB), Botswana, Burkina Faso (NB), Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Cyprus (B), Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, India (B), Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (P), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (P), Kazakhstan (B), Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan (B), Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Pakistan (B), Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Qatar, Russia (European) (B), Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tajikistan (B), Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Tunisia, Turkey (B), Turkmenistan (B), Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan (B), Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Comoros, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska), Denmark, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands Antilles, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Insects, especially bees, wasps, hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (112)...)

 
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) [XC670671]
     by Jerome Fischer from Al Hufuf and Al Mubarraz, Al-Ahsa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (call)

 
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) [XC100466]
     by Jacek Betleja from Caia, Sofala, Mozambique (song)

Nest
In a tunnel of a sandy bank, embankment, low cliff.

Eggs (Guide)
Clutch Size: 4 - 8, usually 6 or 7
Color: white
Dimensions: (spherical)
Incubation: by both sexes

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Olive Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus) and Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus), and the three taxa have often been regarded as conspecific. However, this species shows striking plumage differences from Olive Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus), and breeds sympatrically with Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) in northern Pakistan and India. In some regards, those two species are more similar to each other than either is to present species.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • chrysocercus Cabanis & Heine, 1860   -  Borders of western Sahara, from Morocco to Algeria and from Senegal patchily to L Chad. Winters in sub-Saharan western Africa.
  • persicus Pallas, 1773   -  Egypt (Nile Delta), northern Israel (irregular) and south-eastern Turkey, south to Persian Gulf, and east to northern shores of Caspian and Aral Seas, southern shores of L Balkhash, northern Afghanistan (Hindu Kush) and northern and western India (Delhi and Gujarat). Winters mainly in eastern tropical Africa.



References
See References.


Files:
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