Bee-eaters
African Green Bee-eater
Merops viridissimus
The African Green Bee-eater (Merops viridissimus) is a 15 g scrub bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Bee-eaters
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Weight
- 15 g
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Diet
- Invertivore
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 18
Recorded in Egypt, Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Cameroon, Niger, Ghana, Algeria, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Eritrea, Benin, S. Sudan, Thailand.
Where to see it: Luxor / الأقصر · Jazira Al Awamiyyah (Crocodile Island) جزيرة العوامية (Egypt); Fada, Ennedi (Chad); Parc Urbain Bangr-Weoogo (Burkina Faso); Gonse (Burkina Faso); Massawa (Eritrea).
