5 – Rainbow Bee-eater

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Details

Name:
5 – Rainbow Bee-eater

Scientific Name:
Merops ornatus

Reference Number:
BED-104

Description

Order Coraciiformes; Family Meropidae (Bee-eaters); Scientific name: Merops ornatus;

Common name: Rainbow Bee-eater - Female with a caught prey, a large Robber Fly (Family Asilidae) - Distribution in Australia: present in all mainland states; absent in the arid centre - Distribution outside Australia: breeds in eastern New Guinea; overwinters throughout Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia west to the Wallace zoogeographical line.

Additional Details

Reference Number:	BED-104
Scientific Name:	Merops ornatus