Little Bee-eater
Merops pusillus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- Genus
- Merops
- eBird Code
- libeat1
Subspecies (5)
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Merops pusillus argutus
southwestern Angola to southwestern Zambia and Botswana
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Merops pusillus cyanostictus
eastern Ethiopia to Somalia and eastern Kenya
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Merops pusillus meridionalis
Congo basin to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya southward to eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
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Merops pusillus ocularis
northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (east of the range of pusillus) northeast to the Red Sea coast of Sudan and northern Eritrea and Ethiopia
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Merops pusillus pusillus
savannas from Senegambia to Cameroon, Sudan, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.