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Dueling Dragons Roller Coaster in Islands of Adventure Universal Resort theme park in Orlando, Florida. Blue tracks are of the Ice Dragon and red tracks are of the Fire Dragon.
Brussels, Belgium. 06.06.2012. Rollers parade in Brussels. In the summertime on each Friday a big crowd of people roller blade around the streets of Brussels listening to techno music. They go by my appartment and I took this picture from my balcony last Friday.
Read more about it here: www.brussels-belgium-guide.com/brussels-roller-parade.html
Indian Roller (Scientific Name:Coracias benghalensis) / Blue Jay/ Neelkanth is found in all over India. It can be spotted over the electric lines or poles, specially besides the railway tracks. They also prefer to move on fields, since frogs, insects are their natural foods.Though this bird is called Neelkanth ( neel= blue and kanth= throat in many Indian languages), but colour of the throat of this bird is not blue. Its crown, wings and lower wings and tail are blue in colour. The vibrant shades of blue, purple and sea green are visible at the time of its flight.
In India there was a ritual that this bird would be released at the end of Durga Puja on the day of Dussera. It was believed that as messenger this bird would deliver the news of arriving of Devi Durga to Kailash.
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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.
Source: Wikipedia
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The girls of Badfish Roller Derby hosted the Coachella Valley Derby Girls just outside of Long Beach, California.
All photos by Mike Macias
Roller Disco at Ridge Road Recreational Park in April 2023. Photos by Tony Ventouris and Ed Wondoloski.
Roller Derby: The Charlotte Rollergirls at the Lowcountry Rollergirls, at McAllister Field House at the Citadel
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© 2014 by Louis E. Keiner and Lesley M. Etherson.
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: