Lilacbreasted Roller

[botspur]

The Lilacbreasted Roller is the national bird of Botswana and is seen regularly throughout the country. They like to sit on trees, poles and power-lines that generally overlook an open area.



C&C welcomed

[dje]

Beautiful bird Clive and well captured.

Dave

[FrankMi]

An beautiful bird. The head is surprisingly large for the body, its feet are completely hidden within its feathers, and the colouring is quite unusual, three fairly unique attributes in a single subject.

[botspur]

Hi Dave, Frank. Many thanks for the comments.

[jeeperman]

Agreed, a well shot, pretty and interesting little bird Clive.

[botspur]

Hi Paul, many thanks. I've just remebered a bit of history that in the days of King Lobengula of the Matabele anyone caught wearing the feathers except for the king was put to death.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Clive,

Well, that illicited a whispered "WOW, that's nice" from me.

What Frank said about the subject struck me too.

Well done,

[jprzybyla]

The bird is beautiful, the image perfect by me. Well done, Clive.