Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
Merops hirundineus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- Genus
- Merops
- eBird Code
- stbeat1
Subspecies (4)
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Merops hirundineus chrysolaimus
Senegal to southern Chad and northwestern Central African Republic
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Merops hirundineus furcatus
southern Democratic Republic of the Congo to Tanzania, Zambia, southern Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
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Merops hirundineus heuglini
South Sudan and adjacent Ethiopia, Uganda, and Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Merops hirundineus hirundineus
Angola and Namibia to Zimbabwe and northern South Africa
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.