African Green Bee-eater
Merops viridissimus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- Genus
- Merops
- eBird Code
- grnbee1
Subspecies (3)
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Merops viridissimus cleopatra
Nile Valley (Lake Nasser to delta)
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Merops viridissimus flavoviridis
subdesert steppes of Chad to Red Sea coast of Sudan
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Merops viridissimus viridissimus
savanna of Senegal to Eritrea, Ethiopia, and western Sudan
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.