Blue-beared Bee Eater (ನೀಲಿಗಲ್ಲದ ಕಳ್ಳಿಪೀರ) at GKVK Campus
Channel: GKVK Nature Club
Date: 2022-01-09

Video recored by Praveen L Bennur.

Unbelievable sightings at GKVK campus sighted Blue-beared Bee Eater. The bird is widely distributed in Southeast Asia, very hard to find in the Peninsular Indian subcontinent, especially in small habitats like the GKVK campus. 

There are two subspecies Nyctyornis athertoni athertoni (Nominate race) and Nyctyornis athertoni  bartletti. Subspecies 'athertoni' is widely distributed, on campus, we see this, subspecies 'bartletti' restricted its distribution to Hainan islands...

Interestingly within India, the North-eastern population is darker plumage than Peninsular, further studies needed to come to any conclusion (Morphological variabilities are very common but we don't know whether gene pool is so conserved or mixing up)...

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