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Blue-tailed Bee-eater
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species of bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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Encyclopedic overview
Blue-tailed Bee eater, Dhaka, Bangladesh The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a bee-eater species mostly seen in open habitats close to water. It is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia where many populations are strongly migratory, and seen seasonally in many parts but breeding colonially in small areas across their range, mostly in river valleys, where they nest by tunneling into loamy sand banks.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue-tailed Bee-eater” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.