Northern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicus)

About Northern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicus)

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

The northern carmine bee-eater is a brightly-coloured bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. It is found across northern tropical Africa, from Senegal eastwards to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the southern carmine bee-eater which has a carmine coloured throat rather than the blue throat of the northern species.

Source: Wikipedia