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Lilac Breasted Roller
Coracias Caudata
-25.6151, 31.0763
Field Notes
Description:
A heavy billed, beautifully coloured bird with a green head, lilac throat and breast, a blue belly and even brighter blue wing feathers. Both sexes have the same colouration.
Habitat:
Woodland, Kruger national park.
Notes:
The name ‘roller’ actually comes from the spectacular aerial displays the birds employ during mating season. Lilac-breasted Rollers will dive from a considerable elevation, and then roll in the air while simultaneously letting out a loud call to attract a partner.
They are often seen perched singly or in pairs on telephone wires and at the tops of trees, watching for their food of choice - mainly insects such as grasshoppers and large beetles, scorpions, snails and occasionally lizards.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJune 26, 2014
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