Little Bee-eater

Subspecies (5)

• Merops pusillus argutus

  southwestern Angola to southwestern Zambia and Botswana

• Merops pusillus cyanostictus

  eastern Ethiopia to Somalia and eastern Kenya

• Merops pusillus meridionalis

  Congo basin to eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya southward to eastern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)

• 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

• Merops pusillus pusillus

  savannas from Senegambia to Cameroon, Sudan, and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo