| Blue-moustached Bee-eater | |
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| Information | |
| Range | Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. |
| Scientific Classification | |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Aves |
| Order | Coraciiformes |
| Family | Meropidae |
| Genus | Merops |
| Species | Merops mentalis |
| Conservation Status | |
 Near Threatened | |
The Blue-moustached bee-eater (Merops mentalis), is a species of bee-eater in the Meropidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
The blue-moustached bee-eater is a rainforest bird usually found singly. It perches on a high branch in the canopy beside tracks and clearings and swoops down on small butterflies, honey bees and other insects before returning to its original perch.