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Photo by Tom Tarrant

Ruhija, Bwindi NP, Uganda

Merops oreobates

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Uganda.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Wooded hillsides and forest edges.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes mainly honeybees, but also takes moths, butterflies, dragonflies, beetles and other flying insects.

They are ground nesters.

[edit] References

Kenya Birds

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