Merops ornatus, Latham, 1801

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646103
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scientific name	Merops ornatus
status

Treatment

RAINBOW BEE-EATER Merops ornatus View in CoL #

Local name Man Pirpir (Sansundi).

Range Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Yapen.

Status Austral migrant. Widespread and common in heavily degraded woodland, forest edge, scrub and farmland, occasionally the canopy of primary forest up to c. 350 m; common in June‒October with a record of five in April (KDB).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Coraciiformes
Family	Meropidae
Genus	Merops

Specimens

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