European roller (Coracias garrulus)

Query: Birds of europe

Result: 966^th of 1703

Subject:	European roller (Coracias garrulus)
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Coracias garrula - 1793 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ16700217.jpg

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European roller (Coracias garrulus)

Artist Jacques de Sève (fl. 1742-1788) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_S%C3%A8ve
Creator:Hulk à Paris
Description
Coracias garrula
Date 1793
Source/Photographer Buffon, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, III pl. X
Old Latin name Coracias garrula
New Latin name Coracias garrulus
Common name Nederlands: Scharrelaar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coracias_garrula_-_1793_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16700217.tif

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.

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