European roller (Coracias garrulus)

Query: Birds of europe

Result: 976^th of 1703

Subject:	European roller (Coracias garrulus)
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Artist George Edwards (1694–1773) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Edwards_(naturalist)
Creator:Johann Michael Seligmann
Description
Coracias garrula
Date 1700-1880
Source/Photographer Edwards V 4
Old Latin name Coracias garrula
New Latin name Coracias garrulus
Common name Nederlands: Scharrelaar
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coracias_garrula_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16700219.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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