Somali Bee-eater
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| Somali Bee-eater | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Meropidae |
| Genus: | Merops |
| Species: | M. revoilii |
| Binomial name | |
| Merops revoilii Oustalet, 1882 |
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The Somali bee-eater (Merops revoilii) is a species of bird in the Meropidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Tanzania.
This is a small bee-eater, about seventeen centimetres long. It prefers arid country and desert areas where it may be locally common. It feeds on small flying insects which it catches in short dashes from a low perch. It is either solitary or found in pairs. It nests in the banks of road cuttings and in the sides of deep wells. In Kenya it breeds between March and June.[1]
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2004. Merops revoilii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.
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