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 LC    Broad-billed Roller* Id (Atlas):
    Eurystomus glaucurus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Broad-billed Roller, African Broad-billed Roller, Cinnamon Roller

Family
Coraciidae (Rollers)

Size
29 - 30 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Müller, 1776)

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Cape Verde, Mauritania, Seychelles.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (83)...)

 
Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus) [XC366402]
     by Peter Boesman from Malawi - Vwaza Marsh NP, north entrance, nr Rumphi, Northern Region, Malawi (call)

 
Broad-billed Roller (Eurystomus glaucurus) [XC356064]
     by Jorick van Arneym from Kombo Central, West Coast Region, Gambia (call)

Subspecies
Has been treated as forming a superspecies with Blue-throated Roller (Eurystomus gularis), the two being very similar in morphology and behaviour. Subspecies suahelicus intergrades with afer and aethiopicus in north of its range. Subspecies aethiopicus sometimes merged with afer or split between that subspecies and suahelicus. Birds from central and southern Uganda sometimes separated as rufobuccalis. Populations from Angola to Mozambique and Natal, averaging slightly shorter-winged than suahelicus, sometimes separated as pulcherrimus.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • afer (Latham, 1790)   -  Senegal east to central Sudan, south to Cabinda (northern Angola) and western Kenya.
  • aethiopicus Neumann, 1905   -  South-eastern Sudan, Ethiopia, north-eastern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
  • suahelicus Neumann, 1905   -  Southern Somalia south to Angola, Botswana, eastern Transvaal and Zululand; Zanzibar and Pemba.
  • glaucurus (Müller, 1776)   -  Madagascar; migrates to eastern and east-central Africa.



References
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Files:
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