Bee-eaters

European Bee-eater

Merops apiaster

The European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a 57 g woodland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It migrates.

Family

Bee-eaters

Order

Coraciiformes

Weight

57 g

Habitat

Woodland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

80

Recorded in Spain, South Africa, France, Portugal, Israel, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, Kenya, Netherlands, Sweden, Hungary, Georgia, Namibia, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, Romania, Morocco, Iran, Croatia, Cyprus, Tanzania, Zambia, Serbia, Austria, Czechia, Botswana, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, Palestine, Slovakia, India, Egypt, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Mozambique, Belgium, Poland, Armenia, eSwatini, Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Albania, Rwanda, Malawi, Slovenia, Montenegro, Uzbekistan, United Kingdom, Jordan, Tunisia, Malta, Ethiopia, Norway, North Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Lebanon, Bosnia and Herz., China, Iraq, Qatar, Ghana, Tajikistan, Nigeria, Belarus, Angola, Benin, Djibouti, Oman, Sri Lanka.

Where to see it: TM-Ashgabat hills by Yyldyz Hotel (Turkmenistan); Auto selected (Iran); Buskett Gardens (Malta); Sakhalvasho Raptor Watchpoint (Georgia); Borgo Maggiore shrublands (San Marino).

Photo: Andy Morffew from Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, UK, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons