Racket-tailed Roller - Coracias spatulatus

The Racket-tailed Roller is found in sub-Saharan Africa. Sexes are colored alike and their tail has an elongated pair of outer feathers ending in expanded tips.

Diet includes insects such as flying ants, termites, grasshoppers, crickets, centipedes and scorpions.

Adult

03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA 03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA	Note the tonue 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA Note the tonue 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA	Catching a seed 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA Catching a seed 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA
Caught the seed 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA Caught the seed 07/08/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA	03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA 03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA	03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA 03/28/2012 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA
02/15/2013 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA 02/15/2013 - San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA

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