What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Red-throated Bee-eater been recorded?

Merops bulocki occurrence evidence comes from 206 records in 12 countries and territories, from 1927 to 2024. Most records come from Uganda.

Red-throated Bee-eater
Red-throated Bee-eater — Photo (display-sized rendition): https://www.flickr.com/photos/francesco_veronesi/ · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCoraciiformesMeropidaeMerops

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

206 records across 12 countries and territories, 1927–2024.

Merops bulocki · GBIF taxon key 2475426

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-24. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: March.

9 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

19272024

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Red-throated Bee-eater has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Red-throated Bee-eater. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Uganda 153
Senegal 15
Ghana 11
Benin 7
Chad 6
Ethiopia 3
Gambia 3
Angola 2
Burkina Faso 2
Côte d'Ivoire 2
Niger 1
Nigeria 1

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Others in the family Meropidae.

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Madagascar Bee-eater
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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.