The lilac-breasted roller is this week’s bird of the week The lilac-breasted roller is an African bird of the roller family. It has a lilac breast, rusty cheeks and spring green crown.

The lilac-breasted roller of Africa, like the painted bunting that nests in Texas, easily ranks among the world's most beautiful birds. When my wife, Kathy Adams Clark, and I led a tour in ...

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A Lilac Breasted Roller displays its beautiful plummage. We hope that when you are touring next, you will be able to see and identify the bird for the first time thus becoming your lifer.

The robust and large-headed lilac-breasted roller bird, or the Coracias caudatus belonging to the Coraciidea family, is largely unknown. Ananias Shikongo (75), ...