White-throated Bee-eater
Merops albicollisVieillot, LJP, 1817
English (US) White-throated Bee-eater
The White-throated Bee-eater (Merops albicollis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Meropidae (Bee-eaters) in the order Coraciiformes.
Range: subdesert steppes of sub-Saharan Africa and southwestern ArabiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Merops albicollis
- Family
- Meropidae (Bee-eaters)
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-throated Bee-eater
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1817
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1817
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Nouvelle édition 14 p.15
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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