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    Bee-eater East-Africa

    Admit I'm no expert in this, but haven't seen anything which moves me from blue-breasted. E.g. McNamara's first photo [labelled cinnamon] doesn't show the sharp transition to a lighter belly colour we see in the OP photo. Ebird suggests there are blue-breasted sightings from north of Mt Kenya...
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    Bee-eater East-Africa

    Some observations: in all the little bee-eater pics I found on the web there's only one or two which have the darker brown band as wide as it is here. In most cases it doesn't extend much beyond the dark throat band. The belly is not usually as dark as this [but can be] Pics of little tend to...
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    Bee-eater East-Africa

    Looking at hbw [and other] images for both species, don't think the white wedge is a very good character. Neither is blue over the eye: both species seem to have varying white wedges / blue eyebrows depending on the individual. Instead, a constant for blue-breasted is the pattern of breast...
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