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Little Bee-eater
Merops pusillus · Family Meropidae
Merops pusillus
Family Meropidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 152,345
- Countries and territories with records
- 45
About this species
This species has 152,345 occurrence records from 45 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (32.9%), Kenya (13.2%), Tanzania (9.8%), Botswana (6.5%) and Zimbabwe (5.1%); together they account for 67.4% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.13% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Merops pusillus combines the genus name Merops with the species epithet pusillus. 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 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Merops apiaster. Its record count is 1.4 times the family average (107,640). The family Meropidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.