Blue-tailed bee-eater, Khisma Forest, Nadia District, West Bengal 2020

The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops Philippines) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It is widely distributed across South and Southeast Asia where many populations are strongly migratory and seen seasonally in many parts but breeding colonially in small areas across their range, mostly in river valleys, where the nest by tunneling into loamy sandbanks. They are seen mostly in open habitats close to water. I found this species of bird beside the Khisma forest. Khisma forest is located in Ranaghat-i Block in Nadia District of West Bengal... Thank you