blue-cheeked bee-eater (Merops persicus) Description
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus) pair in courtship, seen in Basai, Gurgaon on Sunday 10th June 2012.
Date 12 June 2012, 10:48
Source Bee-eater Courtship
Author Koshy Koshy from Faridabad, Haryana, India http://www.flickr.com/people/97235261@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bee-eater_Courtship_(7364348244).jpg
The blue-cheeked bee-eater (Merops persicus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and persicus is Latin for "Persian". It breeds in Northern Africa, and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India.