Species factsheet
Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis)
Order:
Merops orientalisFamily:
Bee-eaters (Meropidae)Danish name: Lille Grøn Biæder
Voices can be found
here (External link)Subspecies and Distributionviridissimus
Senegal to n and c Ethiopia
cleopatra
Nile Valley (Egypt) to n Sudan
cyanophrys
s Israel, w and s Arabia
muscatensis
c and e Arabia
beludschicus
s Iraq to nw India
orientalis
w India east to Bangladesh
ferrugeiceps
ne India to sc China and Indochina
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