blue-throated bee-eater (Merops viridis) Description
English: Blue-throated bee-eater (Merops viridis viridis), Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Date 10 May 2015, 14:30:34
Source Own work, from Sharp Photography, http://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
Author Charlesjsharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charlesjsharp
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue-throated_bee-eater_(Merops_viridis).jpg
The blue-throated bee-eater (Merops viridis) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Subspecies M. v. americanus of The Philippines is sometimes considered a distinct species, the rufous-crowned bee-eater, M. americanus.
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: Merops viridis Linnaeus, 1758
