Eurystomus - Oriental Dollarbird, Broad-Billed Roller, Azure Dollarbird, Blue-Throated Roller (Paperback)

Chapters: Oriental Dollarbird, Broad-Billed Roller, Azure Dollarbird, Blue-Throated Roller. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Oriental Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), also known as the Dollar Roller, is a bird of the roller family, so named because of the distinctive blue coin-shaped spots on its wings. It has a length of up to 30cm, and can be found in east Asia from northern Australia to the Japan archipelago. The bird is an insectivore with a love of beetles and often catches prey whilst flying. The young birds have a darker beak which becomes more orange as it becomes mature. It is most commonly seen as a single bird with a distinctive upright silhouette on a bare branch high in a tree, from which it hawks for insects, returning to the same perch after a few seconds. Two Dollarbirds, Rush Creek, SE Queensland, Australia ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=207581