Blue-throated Roller Eurystomus gularis
Blue-throated Roller, Ankasa, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image

Ankasa, Ghana
May 2011

The Blue-throated Roller is distributed in tropical Africa from Guinea in West Africa to Uganda and south to northern Angola. Unlike the Broad-billed Roller E. glaucurus it is found mainly in forest though also in wooded savanna and in plantations with large trees.
Blue-throated Roller, Ankasa, Ghana, May 2011 - click for larger image It hunts insects on the wing flying out from a high perch. It feeds mainly in the late afternoon and at dusk.

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