Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
Merops persicus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,582
- Most observed in
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The blue-cheeked bee-eater (Merops persicus) is a species of bee-eater that breeds in Northern Africa and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India. It is generally strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, although some populations are resident year-round in the Sahel. This species occurs as a rare vagrant north of its breeding range, with most vagrants occurring in Italy and Greece.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Blue-cheeked bee-eater”.