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026 Wild European bee eaters at Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent🐦

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SpeciesCoraciiformesMeropidae
Birds

🐦European Bee-eater

Merops apiaster Linnaeus, 1758

Mehiläissyöjä (Merops apiaster) on värikäs pistiäisravintoon erikoistunut säihkylintu.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/1,100th of your weight
Also called
Bee-eater
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.06 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.9 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European Bee-eater

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.06 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.06 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.1 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.14 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.01 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
5.9 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Woodland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for European Bee-eater yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCoraciiformes
  5. ›familyMeropidae
  6. ›genusMerops
  7. ›speciesMerops apiaster
Full lineage
  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. familyMeropidae
  4. genusMerops
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyMeropidae
  11. genusMerops
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Common Kingfisher — last shared an ancestor ≈ 61 million years ago.
In other languages
biätare (sv), Žuta pčelarica (hr), Bienenfresser (de), bieter (nb), abellerol (ca), vlha pestrá (cs) … and 26 more languages
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026 Wild European bee eaters at Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent022 European bee eater attacking another European bee eater in Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent023 European bee eater defecating in Pfyn Finges Photo by Giles Laurent
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