Blue-throated Bee-eater

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When to see the Blue-throated Bee-eater

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-throated Bee-eater

The map shades 10 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Laos, Macao SAR China, Taiwan.

About the Blue-throated Bee-eater

The blue-throated bee-eater is a species of bird in the bee-eater family. It is found in much of southeast Asia, in subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Their diet consists mostly of bees, wasps, and dragonflies. Blue-throated bee-eater is a medium-large species of bee-eater with brightly coloured plumage consisting of a red-brown nape, dark green wings, light green breast, and their signature blue throat. The juvenile plumage has a dark green head and wings and light green breast, only developing their full plumage in adulthood. They have a rich variety of songs and calls, including long calls which allow them to communicate long distances in the forest.

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Easily confused with

Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineusLike other bee-eaters, this is a richly coloured, slender bird. White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollisThis species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. Arabian Green Bee-eaterMerops cyanophrysIt is 16–18 centimetres (6.3–7.1 in) long excluding the elongated central tail feathers, which are an additional 2 cm (0.8 in) long.

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