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 LC    Blue-bellied Roller* Id (Atlas):
    Coracias cyanogaster

Description (10)
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Family
Coraciidae (Rollers)

Size
28 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
Cuvier, 1817

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Senegal and Sierra Leone to Central African Republic; also extreme northern Zaire and southern Sudan (between Maridi and Kajo Kaji), but very few records.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

 
Blue-bellied Roller (Coracias cyanogaster) [XC862322]
     by id from Kataba1 (near Kabadio), Bignona, Ziguinchor Region, Senegal (call)

 
Blue-bellied Roller (Coracias cyanogaster) [XC486005]
     by Antonio Xeira from Mpak, Ziguinchor, Casamance, Senegal (call)

Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. No obvious close allies within genus.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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