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Blue-headed Bee-eater

Merops muelleri

Photo by AdamRiley
Published on Project Noah
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The Blue-headed Bee-eater is one of the world's most beautiful birds. This image is of the Upper Guinea subspecies and it was taken in deep forest of the Atewa Range Forest Reserve in Ghana.

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KarenSaxton
I see that I need to add W Africa to my list

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PublishedDecember 10, 2011

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