Lilac-breasted roller
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The lilac-breasted roller 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. It prefers o
143 Lilac breasted roller in Etosha National Park Photo by Giles Laurent
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Lilac-breasted roller in flight in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Lilac-breaster roller in Kruger National Park, South Africa
Coracias
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Coracias is a genus of the rollers, an Old World family of birds related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters. They share the colourful appearance of those groups, blues and browns predominating. The two
Lilac-breasted roller
…zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The specific epithet caudatus is Latin meaning "tailed". The lilac-breasted roller is one of nine species in genus Coracias, a group native to the open woodlands of western Eurasia and Africa. The phylogenetic relationships among the Coracias species are shown below, from…
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Indian roller Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar