BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER

Photographed at Arey Ksat, Cambodia, November 2023

(*  837)                 BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER                Merops philippinus

CAMBODIA.               4

Found in open areas and forests. 23-26 cm. Fairly common winter migrants throughout Sri Lanka, also small flocks breed in eastern dry lowlands.

 

BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER

Subspecies javanicus, photographed March 2017

(*  837)                 BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER                Merops philippinus

SRI LANKA               71

Found in open areas and forests. 23-26 cm. Fairly common winter migrants throughout Sri Lanka, also small flocks breed in eastern dry lowlands.

BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER

(see    837)         BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER           Merops philippinus

SINGAPORE             (24)

Found in secondary forest, forest edge, scrub, old plantations, parkland and even urban gardens. 30 cm. Indian sub-continent, S China, mainland Southeast Asia and Greater Sundas east to Philippines and New Guinea. Migratory.

BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER

Photographed in north-west Bali October 2016

837         BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER   Merops philippinus

INDONESIA (Bali)         (50)        

Open country bird seen mainly during northern winter; frequents fields and marshes with scattered trees. 30cms. Range: oriental region, east to New Guinea; partly migratory; Locally and seasonally common winter visitor in the Sudra subregion and Nusa Tenggara; resident on Sulawesi, Flores and in Papua.