northern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicus)

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Result: 1433^rd of 1524

Subject:	northern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicus)
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Description
Merops nubicus
Date 1820-1863
Source/Photographer [Reichenbach], 3254-3255
Old Latin name Merops nubicus
New Latin name Merops nubicus
Common name Nederlands: Noordelijke karmijnrode bijeneter
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merops_nubicus_-_1820-1863_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16800333.tif

The northern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicus) is an African near passerine bird in the bee-eater family, Meropidae. Alternative common names include the carmine bee-eater or the Nubian bee-eater. It is closely related to the southern carmine bee-eater where the throat is carmine (instead of blue).
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788

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Scientific Name: Merops nubicus Gmelin, 1788 Common Names: Northern Carmine Bee-eater, Nubian bee-eater, Carmine Bee-eater (when lumped with M. nubicoides) French: Guêpier écarlate German: Karminspint Spanish: Abejaruco carmesí norteño Taxonomy: Merops nubicus J. F. Gmelin, 1788, Nubia.

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