Eurasian Roller

Coracias garrulus garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758)

		adult
2016-05-29 Eastern Kazakhstan oblast. Beskaragai region.	© Sergei Shmygalev

Description

Brown on mantle is darker; the head, neck, underparts, great and median upperwing coverts are more bluish and less greenish tinged than semenowi.

Distribution

Breeds in Volga-Ural interfluves near flood-gates of reservoirs, in Ural basin, in Naurzum Reserve, in Irtysh valley upwards to Semipalatinsk, and also on Altai in Uba valley near Shemonaikha village. In summer recorded in Pavlodar Trans-Irtysh area. On migration occurs to the south from breeding range. Vagrant bird observed 28 May 1982 on Markakol lake.

References

Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. В.К.Рябицев. "Птицы Урала, Приуралья и Западной Сибири". Екатеринбург. Изд-во Уральского университета, 2000.