Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

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Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Meropidae
Genus: Merops
Species: M. oreobates
Binomial name
Merops oreobates
(Sharpe, 1892)

The Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater (Merops oreobates) is a species of bird in the Meropidae family. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Photographed at Ruhija, SW. Uganda
Photographed at Ruhija, SW. Uganda

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