Blue-throated roller

Blue-throated roller
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Coraciidae
Genus: Eurystomus
Species: E. gularis
Binomial name
Eurystomus gularis
Vieillot, 1819

The blue-throated roller (Eurystomus gularis) is a species of bird in the Coraciidae family.

specimen at Nairobi National Museum

It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.

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