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Antwerp National Zoo
The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family of birds. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula
I have always wanted to do Roller Derby. I have good balance. I can skate while holding a drink without spilling. I like knocking people around.
Roller Derby: a Rat City hometeam bout - the Throttle Rockets vs Grave Danger, at the Rat's Nest in Seattle, WA.
© Louis E. Keiner and Lesley M. Etherson
The European roller is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East, Central Asia and the Maghreb.
The European roller is found in a wide variety of habitats, avoiding only treeless plains. Nests usually in tree holes. It winters in Southern Africa - primarily in dry wooded savanna and bushy plains.
The European roller is a bird of warmer regions. They breed in northern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, in southern and east-central Europe, and eastwards through northwestern Iran to southwestern Siberia. The European range was larger, but there is a long-term decline in the north and west, with extinction as a nesting bird in Sweden and Germany. The European roller is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa south of the Sahara. Some populations migrate to Africa through India. A collision with an aircraft over the Arabian Sea has been recorded.