Asian Green Bee-eater

How to identify

Field marks

1. Fine black eyestripe extends in front of and behind eye
2. Black crescent on upper breast
3. Central tail feathers long and slender
4. Bill black; legs and feet dark gray

Male, female and young

Sexes similar; juvenile is duller and lacks the long central tail feathers and black breast crescent.

Voice

Often gives a nasal, quavering “tree-tree-tree-tree” in flight.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: February · Most records: India, Thailand, Sri Lanka

Asian Green Bee-eater has been recorded at 524 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 13 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. GKVK CampusIndia7,824 records
2. Fergusson College CampusIndia4,491 records
3. Saul Kere / Sowl KereIndia3,634 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaThailandSri LankaCambodiaNepalBangladeshPakistanMyanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Asian green bee-eater (Merops orientalis), also known as the little green bee-eater, and just green bee-eater, is a bird species in the bee-eater family. It is resident or with short-distance seasonal movements, and is found widely distributed across Asia from coastal southern Iran east through the Indian subcontinent to Vietnam. Populations in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula that were formerly assigned to this species (under the name green bee-eater) are now considered to be distinct species, the African green bee-eater and the Arabian green bee-eater.

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