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Blue-breasted Bee-eater
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Blue-breasted Bee-eater

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Blue-breasted Bee-eater

Merops variegatus

The blue-breasted bee-eater (Merops variegatus) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 2192.