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Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater (Merops oreobates)

Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
Photo: Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

The cinnamon-chested bee-eater (Merops oreobates) is a species of bird in the family Meropidae. It is mainly native to the Albertine Rift montane forests and the East African montane forests of East Africa, in the regions surrounding Lake Victoria.

Source: Cinnamon-chested bee-eater on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Cinnamon-chested 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.

Call (2:00) via xeno-canto.org/366684, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda · xeno-canto lists 30 recordings for this species in total.

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