Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)

Query: birds of australia

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Subject:	Oriental dollarbird, dollar roller (Eurystomus orientalis)
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Description
Eurystomus orientalis
Date 1840
Source Image from John Gould: The Birds of Australia 1840 - 1848
Author John Gould (1804–1881)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eurystomus_orientalis.jpg

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.

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