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    eurasian roller
    Coracias garrulus

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    BASIC:

    Size:
    31-31 cm
    12-12 Inch

    Primary color: blue

    Secondary color: orange  
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    IDENTITY:

    it is mainly blue with an orange-brown back. 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.

    HABIT AND HABITAT:

    Oak and pine woodlands with open areas are prime breeding habitat, but farms, orchards and similar areas with mixed vegetation are also used.

    FOOD:

    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.

    VOICE:

    Calls include ack-er-ac, rack-rack, krak and a mournful kraa.

    INFO:

    The European roller (Coracias garrulus) is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East, Central Asia and Morocco. The European roller is found in a wide variety of habitats, avoiding only treeless plains. It winters primarily in dry wooded savanna and bushy plains, where it typically nests in tree holes.

    DISTRIBUTION MAP:
        Resident (inc. local and altitudinal migrants)
        Former range (no recent records but may still survive)
        Summer visitor (including summer monsoon)
        Winter visitor
        Passage (autumn and/or spring) visitor
        known to be occasional, scarce or erratic
        Small isolated population (actual range smaller)  
        Isolated record(s) - one or more in the same area  
     colour coded for seasonality as per coloured ranges, black denotes unspecified season
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    eurasian roller
    Coracias garrulus

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    BASIC:

    Size:
    31-31 cm
    12-12 Inch

    Primary color: blue

    Secondary color: orange  
    (Bird may have more colors)

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    IDENTITY:

    यह मुख्य रूप से नारंगी-भूरे रंग की पीठ के साथ नीला है. इसके रंग भारतीय रोलर से हलके होते है.

    HABIT AND HABITED:

    मुख्य प्रजनन वास खुले क्षेत्रों के साथ ओक और देवदार के वुडलैंड्स हैं, लेकिन खेतों, बागों और मिश्रित वनस्पतियों के समान क्षेत्रों में भी पाया जाता है.

    FOOD:

    ज्यादातर कीड़े; छोटे छिपकलियों, मेंढकों, छोटे कृन्तकों और सांपों को पकड़ता है

    VOICE:

    कॉल में ack-er-ac, rack-rack, krak और एक शोकपूर्ण kraa शामिल हैं.

    INFO:

    यूरोप में प्रजनन के लिए यूरोपीय रोलर (कोरासियास गेरुलस) पक्षियों के रोलर परिवार का एकमात्र सदस्य है। इसकी समग्र सीमा मध्य पूर्व, मध्य एशिया और मोरक्को तक फैली हुई है। यूरोपीय रोलर निवासों की एक विस्तृत विविधता में पाया जाता है, केवल तिहरे मैदानों से बचता है। यह मुख्य रूप से शुष्क जंगली सवाना और जंगली मैदानों में, जहां यह आमतौर पर पेड़ के छेद में घोंसला बनाते हैं

    वितरण नक्शा:
        निवासी (स्थानीय और ऊंचाई के प्रवासी)
        भूतपूर्व श्रेणी (कोई हालिया रिकॉर्ड नहीं है लेकिन फिर भी जीवित बचे हो सकते है)
        गर्मी के मुलाक़ाती(ग्रीष्मकालीन मानसून सहित)
        सर्दी के मुलाक़ाती
        यात्रा (शरद ऋतु और / या वसंत) के मुलाक़ाती
        सामयिक, दुर्लभ या अनिश्चित
        छोटी पृथक जनसंख्या (वास्तविक सीमा छोटी)  
        पृथक रिकॉर्ड - एक ही क्षेत्र में एक या अधिक  
     रंगीन मौसम, काला अनिर्दिष्ट मौसम दर्शाता है
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