| Common Name : | Green Bee Eater. |
| Binomial Name : | Merops orientalis |
| Family : | Meropidae |
| Bengali Name : | Shobuj Shuichora ( |
| Photo Taken : | Bangladesh, India |
Bangladesh is blessed with lot of beautiful birds and 'Green Bee Eater' is one of those. This is mainly native to African and Asian region. In Bangladesh this bird is vastly seen. We use to call this as Shobuj Shuichora (
Green bee eater (Merops orientalis) is a very colorful bird similar to the other bee eaters. It is a small bird having a length of around 8 inches. Main color of the bird is green. The beak is pointed and black in color. It has black stripes at the both eye (kind of Bedouin thing). Below the beak and eye its cyan in color. At the throat it has another horizontal black stripe. Part of the head is slightly brownish. End of the tail looks like a protrude needle at the the center. So with this color combination and the shape, this bird looks really beautiful. Both male and female birds are identical.
Green bee eater (Merops orientalis) is a very fast reflex bird that can catch the flies from the air. It uses to live at the nearby bushes around the wetlands. It uses to perch on a suitable branch, wire, etc and look for a prey. It continuously rotates its head for the prey. It makes an attempt when it encounters something flying nearby. Regardless the success or failure of the attempt, the bird uses to return on the same perching place.
It is such an amazing display of act (preying) that I have enjoyed many times during my birding. They mostly prey on the bee, dragon flies, or other insects. Those small creatures are really fast, and how nicely these small birds simply chase them down!
Green bee eaters (Merops orientalis) are not good at building nests. It mainly builds it's nest on the bank of the river (or any other steep bank of wet lands) by making a hole in soil (or sand). Both male and female raise the babies together. During my Dinajpur trip at 2012 I've seen these birds were having plenty of nest on the bank of river Dhepa. But that time I didn't know much about this bird and thought those as a variety of a parrot.
It was constantly rotating its head and looking for a prey.
Green Bee Eater (Merops orientalis) with a dragonfly as a meal.
Green Bee Eater (Merops orientalis) with a bee.
Photos of Green Bee Eater (Merops orientalis) were taken from the following locations:
1. November 2014: Norshingdi, Bangladesh.
2. December 2014: Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
3. December 2014: Sonar Chor, Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
4. January 2016: Kolkata, India.
This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog http://icbird.blogspot.com/
We have seen this birds on 25/02/2021 at Jadavpur ,Kolkata .Never seen it before .
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