Lilac Breasted Rollers in Flight
by Tom Wurl
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Lilac Breasted Rollers in Flight
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Tom Wurl
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The rollers get their name from the aerial acrobatics some of these birds perform during courtship or territorial flights. They reside in warm climates of the Old World. Rollers resemble crows in size and build, and share the colourful appearance of kingfishers and bee-eaters, blues and pinkish or cinnamon browns predominating. The two inner front toes are connected, but not the outer one. They are mainly insect eaters. Rollers nest in an unlined hole in a tree or in masonry. This was taken in the Masai Mara in Kenya.
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November 26th, 2012
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