Rainbow Bee-eater

Merops ornatus

The rainbow bee-eater is a bird species in the bee-eater family Meropidae. Source

Where it is now

In the last 8 weeks this bird was recorded 5,073 times across 19 areas (each area is a 5 degree square).

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Movement and weather

Each season it is first heard regularly where daytime highs are around 29°C (typically 29 to 32°C, from 5 areas). That holds across 30° of latitude, which suggests its timing follows temperature more than the calendar.

Over the weeks it was present in the past year, its centre in Oceania ranged from 26°S in September to 18°S in April, about 900 km apart.

Arrival dates

The week it was first heard regularly in each region, after at least six weeks away. Dates differ from south to north, so a region has a range.

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Figures are effort corrected and come from automatic sound identification, which makes mistakes. How this is measured and how it compares with human observers.