Northern Carmine Bee-eater are a brightly colored and easily distinguishable birds.Adults are rosy carmine-pink with a bright,light blue rump and upper and under tail coverts.The head is iridescent green-blue with a black eye-line,throat and beak. This species is sexually monomorphic.
In Kenya,they are normally seen around September-November as passage migrant to their breeding ground further north-west of Africa.Its habitat is found in wide range of African savanna,including desert,woodland and northern edge of rainforest zones, although avoiding densely wooded areas.They also frequent agricultural fields of open pasture,floods-plains, and marshes ,and have occasionally been seen searching for prey over large bodies of water.
The local birding site likely to see this species while on a birding trip to kenya includes;Lake Baringo,Tsavo East,Sabaki river estuary and the Kenyan coastal stretch.
Kenya Birding 