THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE-BELLIED ROLLER Coracias cyanogaster

摘要

I have never tired of the beauty of the Blue-bellied Roller Coracias cyanogaster. I have had several pairs over the past six years or so, but now concentrate on keeping just two pairs. I have a 2008-bred pair and a 2009-bred pair. Both pairs were bredby my good friend Bob Jewiss in Kent and are unrelated to one another and this year (2011), I succeeded in breeding this species for the first time. Two young were reared, which have proved to be a male and a female. Only one brood was raised, which isunusual as they usually have two clutches.