Blue Bellied Roller

[Khaos]

"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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[snapapple]

Nice captures of a very cool bird. :thumb
What lens are you using?

[Ric Grupe]

Those head feathers almost look like hair.

Well captured.:clap

[Khaos]

Nice captures of a very cool bird. :thumb
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.

[bfjr]

cool shots, cool looking bird
never seen that one before, whats there range?

[DoctorIt]

I haven't even seen one of those in my bird book! Nice catch :thumb

[Khaos]

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."