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Blue-throated Bee-eater
Merops viridis · Family Meropidae
Merops viridis
Family Meropidae
- Order
- Coraciiformes
- Family
- Meropidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 45,613
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 45,613 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Malaysia (44.9%), Singapore (40.6%), Thailand (6.9%), Indonesia (3.9%) and China (1.5%); together they account for 97.7% of the total. In Malaysia, this species accounts for 0.69% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Merops viridis combines the genus name Merops with the species epithet viridis. 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 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Merops apiaster. Its record count is 42.4% of the family average (107,640). The family Meropidae belongs to the order Coraciiformes, which has 171 species in the Warbla app catalog.