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Asian Green Bee-eater
Merops orientalis · Family Meropidae
Merops orientalis
Family Meropidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 779,192
- Countries and territories with records
- 39
About this species
This species has 779,192 occurrence records from 39 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (89%), Thailand (5.3%), Sri Lanka (1.9%) and Cambodia (1.2%); together they account for 97.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.1% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Merops orientalis combines the genus name Merops with the species epithet orientalis. 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 ornatus and Merops philippinus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 30 species of the family Meropidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Merops apiaster. Its record count is 7.2 times the family average (107,640). The family Meropidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.