White-throated Bee-eater (Merops albicollis)
About the White-throated Bee-eater
The white-throated bee-eater (Merops albicollis) 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. 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.
A real field recording of the White-throated Bee-eater. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 41 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimusprofile
- Arabian Green Bee-eaterMerops cyanophrysprofile
- Asian Green Bee-eaterMerops orientalisrecording
- Black Bee-eaterMerops gularisprofile
- Black-headed Bee-eaterMerops breweriprofile
- Blue-breasted Bee-eaterMerops variegatusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.