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Merops albicollis |
Vieillot, 1817 |
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Family: bee-eaters |
Order: Coraciiformes |
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White-throated bee-eater |
Guêpier à gorge blanche |
Abejaruco gorgiblanco |
Weißkehlspint |
Migration: intracontinental |
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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)
- digitised by GROMS, after del Hoyo J A Elliott; J Sargatal (eds) (2001) - www.hbw.com,
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(Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel) |