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Arabian Green Bee-eater
Merops cyanophrys · Family Meropidae
Merops cyanophrys
Family Meropidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 63,721
- Countries and territories with records
- 9
About this species
This species has 63,721 occurrence records from 9 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (43.1%), the United Arab Emirates (42.6%), Oman (5.6%), Saudi Arabia (4.1%) and Palestine (2.5%); together they account for 98% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.41% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Merops cyanophrys combines the genus name Merops with the species epithet cyanophrys. The Warbla app catalog lists 27 species of the genus Merops; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Merops apiaster, Merops orientalis and Merops ornatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Meropidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Merops apiaster. Its record count is 59.2% of the family average (107,640). The family Meropidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.