Blue-tailed Bee-eater
Merops philippinus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The blue-tailed bee-eater 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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- Genus
- Merops