Southern Carmine Bee-eater

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When to see the Southern Carmine Bee-eater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Southern Carmine Bee-eater

The map shades 14 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Türkiye.

About the Southern Carmine Bee-eater

The southern carmine bee-eater is a species of bee-eater found across sub-equatorial Africa. It was formerly considered conspecific with the closely related northern carmine bee-eater, with the combined species then known as carmine bee-eater.

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Easily confused with

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaterMerops oreobatesThe species measures 22 centimetres (8.7 in) in length and weighs 17–38 grams (0.60–1.34 oz). White-throated Bee-eaterMerops albicollisThis species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. Olive Bee-eaterMerops superciliosusThe olive bee-eater grows to a length of 23 to 26 cm (9.1 to 10.2 in) with its tail streamers adding up to 7 cm (2.8 in).

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