Species: Lilac Breasted Roller | Location: Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana
I saw this magnificently colored bird the first day on safari in Botswana and I asked our guide to please stop the vehicle if we saw it again so I could photograph it. He said, "You will see this little guy every day. You will have many chances!" Our wonderful guide was not, however, a photographer and we would not have too many chances to see this bird while still, posing for a photo. The bird's flight includes side to side rolling, thus its name and they are the size of a song bird. Several days into the trip I got my chance when we were stopped to watch a red lechwe herd and this roller perched on a dead branch fairly close to our vehicle.
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