white-throated bee-eater (Merops albicollis) Description
Merops albicollis
Date 1820-1863
Source/Photographer [Reichenbach], 3246-3247
Old Latin name Merops albicollis
New Latin name Merops albicollis
Common name Nederlands: Witkeelbijeneter
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merops_albicollis_-_1820-1863_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16800325.tif
The white-throated bee-eater (Merops albicollis) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in semi-desert along the southern edge of the Sahara, Africa. The white-throated bee-eater is migratory, wintering in a completely different habitat in the equatorial rainforests of Africa from southern Senegal to Uganda.
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: Merops albicollis Vieillot, 1817
Synonyms: Aerops albicollis
