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Merops albicollis Vieillot, 1817 Family: bee-eaters Order: Coraciiformes print version
White-throated bee-eater Guêpier à gorge blanche Abejaruco gorgiblanco Weißkehlspint
Migration: intracontinental

Verbreitungskarte von Merops albicollis Being an abundant, vocal and aerial bird, migrations of White-throated Bee-eaters are highly visible. With much regularity migrants visit Lake Turkana (for instance) from late February to early September and northeast Nigeria from late April to late October. At Kaduna, Nigeria, spring passage is in the second and third weeks of May and autumn passage from the second week of October until mid November. Some individuals must move well over 2000 km (those that winter in Cabinda, for example). They fatten for the spring journey, increasing their weight by 15%. They breed at the edge of the Sahara in the season of expected rain, and great numbers die if instead they encounter sand storms and temperatures in excess of 45 C.   (Fry CH, Fry K, Harris A, 1992)


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(Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel)