Blue-moustached Bee-eater
Merops mentalisCabanis, JL, 1889
English (US) Blue-moustached Bee-eater
The Blue-moustached Bee-eater (Merops mentalis) 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: Mali and Sierra Leone to Cameroon (Douala)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Merops mentalis
- Family
- Meropidae (Bee-eaters)
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Blue-moustached Bee-eater
- Described by
- Cabanis, JL, 1889
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Cabanis, JL, 1889
- Type locality
- Cameroon.
- Original description
- Journal für Ornithologie 37, no.185 p.78
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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