Böhmspint

Böhmspint
	Boehmspint ( Merops boehmi )
Systematics
Class :	Birds (aves)
Order :	Rockers (Coraciiformes)
Family :	Bee-eater (Meropidae)
Genre :	Merops
Type :	Böhmspint
Scientific name
	Merops boehmi
	Reichenow , 1882

The boehmspint ( Merops boehmi ) is a bird from the bee-eater family , also called the spinach. The species, which is native from central and eastern Africa to southern Africa, is named after the German zoologist and explorer Richard Böhm (1854–1884).

features

The Böhmspint reaches a body length of 17 centimeters, its weight is about 20 grams. The wings as well as the back and belly are greenish. The tail, like the beak and the eye stripe, is black, the throat and forehead are brown-reddish. The iris and legs are brown. Males and females look alike.

food

The boehmspint's diet consists of insects such as butterflies, bees and wasps, grasshoppers and ants. They are caught in flight and eaten or taken to a sheltered place to be chopped up.

Habitat and Distribution

The habitat of the Böhmspint are light and dense forests in southern and equatorial Africa, especially with mopane trees. It occurs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Malawi , Mozambique , Tanzania and Zambia .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b PAR Hockey, WRJ Dean and PG Ryan: "Roberts Birds of Southern Africa", 7th Ed., The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund (online)

Web links

Commons : Merops boehmi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Merops boehmi in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on December 18 of 2008.
Pictures by Willem Frost on berkeley.edu (from April 1, 2008, 9:15 pm)
Merops boehmi on Avibase (from November 27, 2007, 8.30 p.m.)

[Roberts-1] A ^b PAR Hockey, WRJ Dean and PG Ryan: "Roberts Birds of Southern Africa", 7th Ed., The Trustees of the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund (online)