The Asian Green Bee-eater is a green bee-eater with a slender bill. The details here are limited to the account of the nominate subspecies in India.
It has grass-green plumage, a russet head and neck, a slim curved bill and a black throat band.
Small Bee-eaters excavate burrows in streambanks. During the 2024 breeding season along Pakistan’s Ballar Stream, researchers observed 38 natural nests. The burrows averaged 86.7 centimetres deep, and their entrances were about 201 centimetres above the ground.
The nests averaged 3.9 eggs; hatching success was 77.5%, fledging success 51.2%, and total breeding success 37.1%. Deeper burrows were associated with larger clutches, and higher nest placement was associated with breeding success. Eggs were laid from early March to late May, and both parents incubated them for about 15.5 days on average. The 108 measured eggs averaged 21.84 millimetres long and 16.26 millimetres wide; nests produced an average of 1.8 fledglings.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
Across the 38 nests, nest structure was more strongly associated with breeding outcomes than surrounding landscape measures; cavity depth related to clutch size, while nest height related to breeding success.