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The Indian Roller is a stocky bird about 26–27 cm long and can only be confused within its range with the migratory European Roller. The breast is brownish and not blue as in the European Roller. The crown and vent are blue. The primaries are deep purplish blue with a band of pale blue. The tail is sky blue with a terminal band of Prussian blue and the central feathers are dull green. The neck and throat are purplish lilac with white shaft streaks. The bare patch around the eye is ochre in colour. The three forward toes are united at the base. Rollers have a long and compressed bill with a curved upper edge and a hooked tip. The nostril is long and exposed and there are long rictal bristles at the base of the bill.
Their main habitat is cultivation, thin forest and grassland. They are often seen perched on roadside electric wires. They descend to the ground to capture their prey which may include insects, arachnids, small reptiles and amphibians. Fires attract them and they will also follow tractors for disturbed invertebrates. In agricultural habitats in southern India, they have been found at densities of about 50 birds per km2. They perch mainly on 3—10 metre high perches and feed mostly on ground insects. Nearly 50% of their prey are beetles and 25% made up by grasshoppers and crickets. The feeding behaviour of this roller and habitat usage are very similar to that of the Black Drongo. During summer, they may also feed late in the evening and make use of artificial lights and feed on insects attracted to them.
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Bought them last week at Cheapskates in Memphis for Roller Derby practice this summer. Watch out now!
One of the crazier roller coasters at Universal Studios, Florida. This was called "The Hulk" Roller Coaster.
Roller Disco at Ridge Road Recreational Park in April 2023. Photos by Tony Ventouris and Ed Wondoloski.
Roller Disco at Ridge Road Recreational Park in April 2023. Photos by Tony Ventouris and Ed Wondoloski.
A roller creature caught in a precarious situation. 16 x 18 x 5 inches
Read about the making of "Roller Baby," as I like to call it, here:
Quads of War Milton Keynes Mens and Cornwall Roller Derby vs Bridgend Roller Derby and Portsmouth Scurvy Dogs at The Ultimate Alliance presented by Wiltshire Roller Derby at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon on Sunday 22nd October 2017. Portsmouth, Bridgend, Milton Keynes and Cornwall team photo.
The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African member of the roller family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, preferring open woodland and savanna; it is largely absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches conspicuously at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, small birds and rodents moving about at ground level. Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs is laid, and incubated by both parents, who are extremely aggressive in defence of their nest, taking on raptors and other birds. During the breeding season the male will rise to great heights, descending in swoops and dives, while uttering harsh, discordant cries.
The shoving and elbowing was very evident in the Montreal Roller Derby, a smashathon that involves fiesty women with helmets, skates, shin-pads and a lot of guts.
This is a scan of one of my archive pictures that was taken on 29th April 1989. It is of a 1923 Clayton & Shuttleworth road roller (serial number 48751) that fell off the road near Yeovil.