European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

Query: Iconographia zoologica

Result: 132^nd of 1525

Subject:	European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
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Merops apiaster
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Merops apiaster
New Latin name Merops apiaster
Common name Nederlands: Bijeneter
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merops_apiaster_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16800305.tif

The European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. The genus name Merops is Ancient Greek for "bee-eater", and apiaster is Latin, also meaning "bee-eater", from apis, "bee".

Iconographia zoologica
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