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Blue-tailed Bee Eater

Merops philippinus

Photo by Sulakkhana
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Description:

The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia where many populations are strongly migratory, and seen seasonally in many parts but breeding colonially in small areas across their range, mostly in river valleys, where the nest by tunneling into loamy sand banks. They are seen mostly in open habitats close to water.

Habitat:

I was found this one near the weeravila Lake, Sri lanka. They are seen mostly in open habitats close to water

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