Blue-tailed pinto

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Blue-tailed pinto
Blue-tailed pint (Merops philippinus)

Blue-tailed pint ( Merops philippinus )

Systematics
Row : Land vertebrates (Tetrapoda)
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Rockers (Coraciiformes)
Family : Bee-eater (Meropidae)
Genre : Merops
Type : Blue-tailed pinto
Scientific name
Merops philippinus
Linnaeus , 1766

The blue-tailed pinto ( Merops philippinus ) is a bird of the genus ( Merops ) and the bee-eater family (Meropidae). It occurs in North India .

It is a brightly colored, slender bird, mostly green, with a bruise on the face and a black stripe over the eyes, a brown and yellow throat, a blue tail, and a black beak.

It feeds mainly on insects that it catches in flight ( bees , wasps and dragonflies ) and then chopped up on a branch.

The blue-tailed pint likes to be sociable and breed in subtropical open country, in parks and rice fields. It builds its nests in colonies on sandbanks or flat land and lays 7-9 round white eggs in a tube. Both sexes take care of the clutch and then the feeding of the little ones.

Its song is similar to that of the European bee eater .

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