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Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Merops leschenaulti Scientific name definitions

Hilary Fry and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 17, 2016

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Distribution of the Chestnut-headed Bee-eater

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Recommended Citation

Fry, H. and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Chestnut-headed Bee-eater (Merops leschenaulti), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.chbeat1.01
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