Talk:Bee-eaters in Britain

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I oppose the proposed merger for two reasons:

• Both the
  Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
  have ranges in which Britain is no more than peripheral. Merging sections of this article into the species' pages would give disproportionate weight to a single (and, in this context, exceedingly minor) locality.
• The current article discusses something that would be lost by separating sections to different pages, namely the occurrence in Britain of bee-eaters in general.

Jimmy Pitt talk 11:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]