Stats

Lifespan

10-15 yrs

Size

Small

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Pair

Biome

Tropical savannah

Range

Sub-Saharan Africa

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Rare

About

Blue-bellied Rollers are small to medium-sized birds that breed across Africa in a narrow belt from Senegal to northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo. They have a distinctive blue belly and a striking black and white plumage with a long tail.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Coraciiformes

Family

Coraciidae

Genus

Coracias

Species

Coracias cyanogaster