500px provided description: African Green Bee-eater Merops viridissimus cleopatra. This photo was captured in Egypt, in the village in Fayoum. The African Green Bee-eater is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across subsaharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, and the Nile valley. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water.

Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named. [#bird ,#nikon ,#egypt ,#birding ,#bee-eater ,#fayoum ,#Green bee-eater ,#morhaf ,#morhaf_photography]