5 – Rainbow Bee-eater
Details
Name:
5 – Rainbow Bee-eater
5 – Rainbow Bee-eater
Scientific Name:
Merops ornatus
Merops ornatus
Reference Number:
BED-105
BED-105
Description
Order Coraciiformes; Family Meropidae (Bee-eaters); Scientific name: Merops ornatus;
Common name: Rainbow Bee-eater - Female with a caught prey, a cicada - 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-105 |
| Scientific Name: | Merops ornatus |