Blue-tailed Bee-eater

Msrops philippinus

Beak

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Feet

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Crest

No crest

Breeds in N and NE subcontinent; winters in peninsula and Sri Lanka. From Blue-cheeked by blue rump and tail. and forehead and crown are mainly bronze-green (with just a touch of blue on supercilium). Chestnut of throat extends onto ear-coverts. and upperparts and underparts are washed with rufous and turquoise, and has turquoise undertail-coverts. Juvenile as juvenile Blue -cheeked, but with strong blue cast to rump, uppertail-coverts and tail, and more extensive but less well-defined rufous throat. Near water in more wooded, less dry country than Blue-cheeked.