Debasis Bose
22-11-2013, 09:14 PM
Winter of India sees many visitors from north and one among them is the European Roller.
The European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East and Central Asia and Morocco. They are long-distance migrant.
It is a bird of warm, dry, open country with scattered trees, preferring lowland open countryside with patches of oak Quercus forest, mature pine Pinus woodland with heathery clearings, orchards, mixed farmland, river valleys, and plains with scattered thorny or leafy trees. It winters primarily in dry wooded savanna and bushy plains, where it typically nests in tree holes.
Nikon D 7000, Nikor 70-200mm f2.8, Fstop 6.3 @ 200mm, 1/640s, ISO 200. Image is cropped. Location, near Chotti Chattri on the border of zone 2 and 3
The European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East and Central Asia and Morocco. They are long-distance migrant.
It is a bird of warm, dry, open country with scattered trees, preferring lowland open countryside with patches of oak Quercus forest, mature pine Pinus woodland with heathery clearings, orchards, mixed farmland, river valleys, and plains with scattered thorny or leafy trees. It winters primarily in dry wooded savanna and bushy plains, where it typically nests in tree holes.
Nikon D 7000, Nikor 70-200mm f2.8, Fstop 6.3 @ 200mm, 1/640s, ISO 200. Image is cropped. Location, near Chotti Chattri on the border of zone 2 and 3