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What the White-throated Bee-eater sounds like
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This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly coloured, slender bird. It is predominantly green, but its face and throat are white with a black crown, eye stripe, and neckband. The underparts are pale green shading to blue on the breast. The eye is red and the beak is black. The white-throated bee-eater can reach a length of 19–21 cm, excluding the two very elongated central tail feathers, which can exceed an additional length of 12 cm. They weigh between 20 and 28 grams. Sexes are alike, except that the male has longer tail feathers. The call is similar to European bee-eater.
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When to see the White-throated Bee-eater
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-throated Bee-eater
The map shades 35 countries with regular records, and 5 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 South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia, United Arab Emirates.
About the White-throated Bee-eater
The white-throated bee-eater is a species of bee-eater that breeds in semi-desert along the southern edge of the Sahara. The white-throated bee-eater is migratory, wintering in a completely different habitat in the equatorial rain forests of Africa from southern Senegal to Uganda.
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Easily confused with
Southern Carmine Bee-eaterMerops nubicoidesThis species, like other bee-eaters, is richly coloured and is predominantly carmine in colouration, but the crown and undertail are blue.
Cinnamon-chested Bee-eaterMerops oreobatesThe species measures 22 centimetres (8.7 in) in length and weighs 17–38 grams (0.60–1.34 oz).
Swallow-tailed Bee-eaterMerops hirundineusLike other bee-eaters, this is a richly coloured, slender bird.
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