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Merops boehmi (Böhm's bee-eater)
Roeskopbyvreter [Afrikaans]; Böhm-bijeneter [Dutch];
Guêpier de Böhm [French]; Böhmspint [German]; Abelharuco de Böhm
[Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Coraciiformes
> Family: Meropidae
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Böhm's bee-eater. [photo Hugh Chittenden
©] |
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The Böhm's bee-eater occupies two small areas of
south-central Africa, one from western Tanzania to Zambia and the
other in eastern Tanzania and Malawi, slightly extending northern
Mozambique, which is the only southern African area it occupies. It generally
prefers open woodland, but it can also be found in riparian forest and miombo (Brachystegia)
woodland.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG (eds) 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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