Red-throated Bee-eater (Merops bulocki)

Family
Meropidae (Bee-eaters)

Size
20 - 22 cm

First Described (Guide)
Vieillot, 1817

Habitat
Dry savanna. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest and shrubland, inland wetlands, rural gardens, pastureland, arable land.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Sierra Leone.

Population
Estimated population is 1,700,000 - 4,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Red-throated Bee-eater (Merops bulocki) [XC421229]
by Brendan Sloan from Wassadou, Tambacounda, Senegal (call)

Red-throated Bee-eater (Merops bulocki) [XC857098]
by James Lidster from Larabanga, West Gonja, Northern Region, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
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), Black Bee-eater (Merops gularis), Little Bee-eater (Merops pusillus), Blue-breasted Bee-eater (Merops variegatus), Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater (Merops oreobates) and White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides). Forms a superspecies with White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides), with which sometimes treated as conspecific. A rare yellow-throated variant was first described as a separate species, Merops boleslavskii. Species name sometimes emended to bullocki, but this is unjustified due to lack of internal evidence to this effect in initial description, so original spelling should stand.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

bulocki Vieillot, 1817 - Senegal east to Central African Republic.
frenatus Hartlaub, 1854 - Western Ethiopia, southern Sudan, north-eastern Zaire and north-western Uganda.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-throated Bee-eater (Merops bulocki) - 10 files

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