Bee-eaters (Meropidae)
White-fronted Bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) - HBW 6, p. 333
French: Guêpier à front blanc
German: Weißstirnspint
Spanish: Abejaruco Frentiblanco
Taxonomy: Merops Bullockoides A. Smith, 1834, Marico district, Transvaal, South Africa.
Has been placed with other small, round-winged species lacking tail-streamers in genus Mellitophagus, comprising present species and M. muelleri, M. gularis, M. pusillus, M. variegatus, M. oreobates and M. bulocki. Forms a superspecies with M. bulocki, with which sometimes treated as conspecific. Birds from S Tanzanian highlands sometimes separated as race randorum, but differences from other populations very slight. Species name has occasionally been listed as bulockoides, in apparent accordance with spelling of closely re.. View all taxonomy...
Has been placed with other small, round-winged species lacking tail-streamers in genus Mellitophagus, comprising present species and M. muelleri, M. gularis, M. pusillus, M. variegatus, M. oreobates and M. bulocki. Forms a superspecies with M. bulocki, with which sometimes treated as conspecific. Birds from S Tanzanian highlands sometimes separated as race randorum, but differences from other populations very slight. Species name has occasionally been listed as bulockoides, in apparent accordance with spelling of closely related M. bulocki, upon which original name of present species was presumably based; however, these details have no significance for scientific nomenclature, and original spelling must stand. Monotypic.
Distribution: W Gabon, NE Zaire (Virunga National Park) and NW Kenya (L Turkana) S to N & E Botswana, Orange Free State and Natal.
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A bird preening after plunge bathing with other birds calling out of view. Locality South Africa (Monotypic species)
Dave Jackson 17 March 2010 3 years ago 58 sec 4.5 -
A bird sunning itself before preening and flying off. Locality South Africa (Monotypic species)
Dave Jackson 17 March 2010 3 years ago 31 sec 4.5 -
Viewed from a drifting boat, an individual perched before flying away Locality Matusadona National Park, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe (Monotypic species)
Greg Baker 7 September 1999 1 year ago 26 sec 4.1 -
A group perched on a branch near the colony Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Francesc Capdevila i Torr... 30 September 2002 9 years ago 28 sec 4.1 -
A bird on a wire and flying away Locality Nylsvley Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Helmut Schenkel Brunner 31 July 2003 5 years ago 13 sec 3.8 -
A perched bird looking around and defecating once Locality Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Rigdon Currie 31 December 2002 5 years ago 9 sec 3.6
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A perching bird
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Libor Vaicenbacher 14 October 2009 3 years ago 4.7 -
Three birds perched on branch
Locality Polokwane (Pietersburg), Limpopo Province, South Africa
jmdebruyn 4 November 2012 23 weeks ago 4.5 -
An adult perched on a tree.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Carmelo López 3 November 2010 2 years ago 4.3 -
A close up of a confident specimen
Locality Lower Zambezi National Park, Lusaka Province, Zambia
Marco Valentini 27 August 2011 1 year ago 4.2 -
A nice looking bird
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Guy Poisson 31 October 2012 22 weeks ago 4 -
Verleiding voor de paring - Seduction for mating.
Locality Tanzania
François Haffner 23 September 2012 30 weeks ago 4
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