The Somali Bee-eater is a small bee-eater with green upperparts and a blue rump. In dry scrub and open grassland, it makes short flights from low perches to catch small insects in the air.
The forehead is reddish brown, with a dark stripe running through the eye toward the neck. The upperparts are green, the throat white, the underparts cinnamon, and the rump blue.
It lives in arid scrub, steppe, and grassland with scattered bushes. It usually darts from a low perch on short flights to catch small airborne insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.