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Last year I had a wonderful day in the roller ( Eurasian roller (Coracias garrulus, szalakóta) hide. Though the weather conditions were mostly quite harsh (wind and rain) in May this year, I was lucky that my pre-booking hit a sunny and warm day with really active birds.
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
This time of the year you come across a European Roller around every corner. It is difficult, however, just to drive past without taking a picture, especially if it poses for you like this one did.
The European Roller breeds in Europe, crosses the Mediterranean via different routes, rests in Sub-Saharan Africa and winters in the southern part of Africa. Each year, the European roller (Coracias garrulus) covers close to ten thousand kilometers to breed and to winter. A species to be admired. This one most likely has already left for Europe. This could be the last photo taken of him/her in South Africa :-)
The Indochinese roller (Coracias affinis) or Burmese roller, is a member of the roller bird family. It occurs widely from eastern India to China and southeast Asia.
Vehicles hustle across the Antioch Bridge spanning the San Joaquin River in morning traffic.
I was determined to find an unobstructed angle in which to feature the steep rise of this bridge. Entering an unlocked gate in the 2am hour, I made my way along this private section of Sherman Island. By the time I was ready to leave, the gate had been padlocked shut and I spent a few extra hours confined to this area until an unhappy property owner chided me for my trespassing ways. He then allowed me to exit.
Shot with the long end of the DFA 150-450.
Spotted this Roller while driving along and managed to stop and roll down the window and take this shot from my ‘mobile hide’ !!
Taken in Spain.
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Wikipedia: The Indochinese roller (Coracias affinis) or Burmese roller, is a member of the roller bird family. It occurs widely from eastern India to Myanmar and Southeast Asia.
The Indochinese roller was formerly considered as a subspecies of the Indian roller because of a narrow hybrid zone in northeast India but a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that the Indochinese roller was more closely related to the purple-winged roller (Coracias temminckii) than it is to the Indian roller. The Indochinese roller is monotypic: no subspecies are recognized.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Mara North Conservancy, Kenya
coracias caudatus
vorkstaartscharrelaar
rollier à longs brins
Gabelracke
Carraca Lila
Ghiandaia marina pettolilla
rolieiro-de-peito-lilás
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My second keeper of the morning. The Richmond Bridge just keeps giving. Nicknamed the roller coaster span do to the vertical undulation of the center section.
Shot with the Nikkor 200-500mm and processed in camera raw and Nik Color Efex Pro.
This is the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge, a double-decked dual cantilever bridge connecting Marin County and Contra Costa County along Interstate 580 in Northern California.
We kept hearing this rather harsh and grating call and found this stunner calling his mate. The rufous-crowned roller is distinguished from all other Tanzanian rollers by the lack of blue color on the belly. It is the largest of the East African rollers.
The lilac-breasted roller is found in savanna and open woodland across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.. Seen here in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
It’s easily spotted as it likes to perch conspicuously on top of high vantage points like trees and poles, looking for prey on the ground such as insects, scorpions, snails, and rodents. During mating seasons the males fly high to engage in huge dives and swoops whilst making loud calls. [credit SafarisAfricana]
Saw this Roller perched in a tree as we were driving past. I pulled up by the side of the road but it was on the passenger side so I had to manoeuvre my camera past my wife and twist round into a position to take the shot. Lol.
It only posed long enough for this shot and then flew off!
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(Coracias garrulus)
Castro Verde
Portugal
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The lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus) is an African bird of the roller family, Coraciidae. It is widely distributed in Southern and Eastern Africa, and is a vagrant to the southern Arabian Peninsula.[1] It prefers open woodland and savanna, and it is for the most part absent from treeless places. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, amphibians and small birds moving about on the ground.[2] Nesting takes place in a natural hole in a tree where a clutch of 2–4 eggs are 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 a fair height (69 to 144 metres), descending in swoops and dives,[3] while uttering harsh, discordant cries. The sexes do not differ in coloration, and juveniles lack the long tail streamers of adults.
Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus), an African member of the roller (or Coraciidae) family. Known to sit on prominent perches in open woodland and lightly-treed grasslands.
Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana.
Conservation Status: Least Concern
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Rollers often perch prominently on trees, posts or overhead wires, like giant shrikes, whilst watching for the large insects, small reptiles, rodents and frogs that they eat. The diet of adult rollers is dominated by beetles, whereas nestlings mostly eat Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers and bush crickets.
We saw several Purple Rollers during our visit to Ethiopia this past August and while I don’t typically prefer an overcast white sky as a background, I thought this one worked for me. The colors were a bit muted on this species compared to other rollers that we encountered but I thought they showed up quite nicely in this image. It’s a bit difficult to gauge in this photo but this bird is pretty large and definitely made an impression on me.
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Coracias naevius
Wikipedia: The purple roller is the largest of the rollers, growing to a length of 35 to 40 cm (14 to 16 in). Adults weigh from 145 to 200 g (5.1 to 7.1 oz) with an average weight of 168 g (5.9 oz).[6] From a distance it appears a dull brownish bird with a white stripe over the eye, a patch of white on the nape and a dark tail. Northern populations tend to have a rufus crown while southern populations have a more olive-green crown. The underparts are purplish-pink streaked with white. The wings are long and rounded while the tail is square-cut.
Saw this Roller come in and land on this abandoned utility pole. These birds are easy to capture since they often perch for many minutes at a time not caring about folks like me busy clicking away from close. They choose prominent bare trees or wires from which they descend to the ground to capture prey which include insects, arachnids, small reptiles, small snakes and amphibians. The bird has many colours and is quite attractive. The subspecies "Indicus", as seen here, is found in peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The southern form has a darker reddish collar on the hind neck.
One of my favorite species of birds from Etosha is the Lilac ?Breasted Roller. That are so vibrant in color and such an interesting bird to watch as it goes about finding insects to eat. They are beautiful to see in flight revealing all their many colors and you never tire of seeing just one more.
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This is another shot of chain saw marks on a log from a felled oak that I thought resembled rolling waves.
The lilac-breasted roller is found in savanna and open woodland across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.. Seen here in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
It’s easily spotted as it likes to perch conspicuously on top of high vantage points like trees and poles, looking for prey on the ground such as insects, scorpions, snails, and rodents. During mating seasons the males fly high to engage in huge dives and swoops whilst making loud calls. [credit SafarisAfricana]