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European Roller

Coracias garrulus

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Description:

Mainly blue with an orange-brown back. Only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe and is a long-distance migrant, wintering in southern Africa.

Habitat:

In dry wooded savanna and bushy plains during the winter.
This spotting was in Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.

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What a luminous beauty, it looks like its glowing!

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PublishedMarch 20, 2013

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