Bee-eaters
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
Merops nubicoides
The Southern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) is a 42 g woodland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Bee-eaters
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Weight
- 42 g
- Habitat
- Woodland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 12
Recorded in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, eSwatini.
Where to see it: Drotsky's Cabins (Botswana); Bwabwata NP · Mahango riverside loop (Namibia); Chobe River · west of Kasane (Botswana); Okavango Delta · Xaro Lodge (Botswana); Chobe River · boat trip (Botswana) (Botswana).
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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