Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus)

Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus)

About Blue-cheeked Bee-eater (Merops persicus)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Motmots
Family: Bee-eaters

The blue-cheeked bee-eater is a species of bee-eater that breeds in Northern Africa and the Middle East from eastern Turkey to Kazakhstan and India. It is generally strongly migratory, wintering in tropical Africa, although some populations are resident year-round in the Sahel. This species occurs as a rare vagrant north of its breeding range, with most vagrants occurring in Italy and Greece.

Source: Wikipedia