Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)

Query: Roller

Result: 159^th of 249

Subject:	Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Artist Paul Louis Oudart (1796–1860)
Creator:C. Motte
Description
Eurystomus orientalis
Date 1825-1834
Source/Photographer Vieillot, La galerie des oiseaux, pl. 111
Old Latin name Eurystomus orientalis
New Latin name Eurystomus orientalis
Common name Nederlands: Dollarvogel
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurystomus_orientalis_-_1825-1834_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16700245.tif

The dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Oriental dollarbird or dollar roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It can be found in south-west Pacific and east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago and India.

Roller
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