Blue tailed bee-eater in the terai Shivaliks, in Corbett

From the archive record

Blue tailed Bee-eater or Merops philippinus in Corbett National Park which lies in the Shivalik- terai biotic province. An allied species, the Green Bee-eater, Merops orientalis, (sometimes Little 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 sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and The Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. 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. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest