Rufous-crowned Roller (Coracias naevius)

Other Names (World)
Purple Roller, Rufous-crowned Roller

Family
Coraciidae (Rollers)

Size
35 cm

First Described (Guide)
Daudin, 1800

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Djibouti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Yemen.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

Purple Roller (Coracias naevius) [XC341172]
by Brendan Sloan from Lac Tanma, Thies, Senegal (call)

Purple Roller (Coracias naevius) [XC715786]
by Tony Archer from Pomfret, Bophirima, North West, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. No obvious close allies. Species name frequently given as feminine, naevia, as in original description, but genus is masculine. Original spelling of species name actually appears to be "noevia", but appearance of diphthongs varies with original typescripts, and evidence from this same work indicates author's intended name to have been "naevia".

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

naevius Daudin, 1800 - Senegal east to Somalia, and south to Tanzania.
mosambicus Dresser, 1890 - Angola and Namibia east to Zambia, southern Mozambique and north-eastern South Africa (northern Natal).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Rufous-crowned Roller (Coracias naevius) - 10 files

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