The white-throated bee-eater is migratory, wintering in a completely different habitat in the equatorial rain forests of Africa from southern Senegal to Uganda.

As the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and hornets, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch.

The white-throated bee-eater is a bird which breeds in dry sandy open country, such thorn scrub and near-desert.

These abundant bee-eaters are gregarious, nesting colonially in sandy banks or open flat areas.

Widespread and common throughout its large range, the white-throated bee-eater is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.