Blue Bellied Roller

KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
edited May 4, 2006 in Wildlife
"The blue-bellied roller eats a diet of insects (grasshoppers, beetles, termites) and small lizards and will travel long distances to eat insects burned in grass fires. Blue-bellied rollers are noisy birds that frequent high tree tops from which they launch their loud aerobatic displays."

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  • snapapplesnapapple Registered Users Posts: 2,093 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Nice captures of a very cool bird. thumb.gif
    What lens are you using?
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Those head feathers almost look like hair.

    Well captured.clap.gif
  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    snapapple wrote:
    Nice captures of a very cool bird. thumb.gif
    What lens are you using?

    The first was with the 70-200 2.8 IS L and the second was with the 300 4.0 IS L.
  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    cool shots, cool looking bird
    never seen that one before, whats there range?
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,952 moderator
    edited May 4, 2006
    I haven't even seen one of those in my bird book! Nice catch thumb.gif
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    bfjr wrote:
    cool shots, cool looking bird
    never seen that one before, whats there range?

    "Senegal and Gambia to Sudan. A variety of habitat, including wooded savannah, forest edges, plantations, burnt-over clearings, woods near marshes, and streams."
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