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| Southern carmine bee-eater | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Coraciiformes |
| Family: | Meropidae |
| Genus: | Merops |
| Species: | M. nubicoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Merops nubicoides | |
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year-round resident breeding visitor non-breeding visitor
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The southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides) is a species of bee-eater found across sub-equatorial Africa. It was formerly considered conspecific with the closely related northern carmine bee-eater, with the combined species then known as carmine bee-eater.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Merops nubicoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22683772A93000205. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22683772A93000205.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.