Common, breeding summer migrant.
Merops ornatus is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | Albury, Wodonga | South Coast | Central West NSW | Riverina Murray | New South Wales North Coast | Hume | Loddon Mallee | Greater Brisbane | Wide Bay | Central Queensland | Mackay | Townsville | North Queensland | Top End and Big Rivers | South East South Australia | Kimberley | Pilbara | Central and Barkley
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Maps
Barneys Hill/Mt Stranger Black Flat at Corrowong Bluetts Block (402, 403, 12, 11) Bullen Range Cotter Reserve Fyshwick Sewerage Treatment Plant Gigerline Nature Reserve Googong Foreshore Hall Horse Paddocks Jerrabomberra Wetlands Lake Tuggeranong Lanyon - northern section A.C.T. Lower Molonglo Molonglo River Reserve Namadgi National Park Pine Island to Point Hut Piney Ridge Point Hut to Tharwa Red Hill Nature Reserve Rugosa Stony Creek Strike-a-Light TSR Swamp Creek Tharwa Bridge The Pinnacle Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Uriarra Recreation Reserve Uriarra TSR Woodstock Nature ReservePlaces
Denman Prospect, ACT Hall, ACT Strathnairn, ACT Tharwa, ACT