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HOME About Links Books Bird galleries List of Bird Photos Jill Adams' Birds (Watercolours) Some of Jill's birds from The Birds around us Andre Olwage's Birds (Watercolours) Nico's Birds of Prey Nico's Owls Small birds Rosie' Turacos Waderbash Klaus Kassel at WCNP Peet's Birds Okavango Bird Potpourri Awie's Birds Beautiful Kalahari Fritz Weaver Basie van Zyl's birds Basie's Birds of Prey Ingo's Birds Louis Groenewald's birds Pieter's Raptors Awie's Water games Awie's Kalahari Birds Roland Hill's Birds John Murray's Birds Hennie Cilliers' Birds Pieter La Grange's Birds Kirsten Frost's Birds Adam Riley's Birds Chris Krog's Birds Michael McSweeney Mark Drysdale's Birds Birds Potpourrie 2012 Birds Potpourrie 2016 Birds Potpourrie 2017 Johan van Noordwyk Brian Culver's Birds Tinus Lamprecht's Birds Billy Steenkamp's Birds Anja Denker's Birds Trevor Hardaker's Birds John Tinkler's Birds Bob Hobbes's Birds Hennie Storm's Birds Coen Homan's Birds Brian Radford's Birds Jody de Bruyn's Birds Peek, Boo and Hoo Derek Keats's Birds Tim Cockcroft's Birds Ed Raubenheimer's Birds Stewart Mathesons' Birds Clint Ralph's Birds Johann Van Den Berg	Page 1 - 10 photos, please scroll down - Page 2 Lilac-breasted Roller © Jill Adams Lilac-breasted Roller 1 Coracias caudatus  Gewone Troupant  Gabelracke  Rolieiro-de-peito-lilás  Rollier à longs brins Lilac-breasted Roller 2 © Chris Krog © Billy Steenkamp © Mark Drysdale © Tinus Lamprecht Lilac-breasted Roller Kruger National Park © Brian Radford Lilac-breasted Roller © Coen Homann at Kruger NP © Brian Culver Lilac-breasted Roller juvenile Elephant Sands Lodge, Botswana © Derek Keats © Adam Riley The reason the Roller is called a Troupant in Afrikaans is that it's a corruption of the word: Trouband, or in English: Wedding Ring. The story goes that young men wanting to get married will harvest the sticky gum from the Leadwood tree (Combretum imberbe), for example. They will find an appropriate dead branch, where Roller's often sit, and will place a "bolletjie" or wad of this gum on the branch. When next a Roller sits on the branch his feet get stuck and he is effectively trapped. The man then catches the Roller. He will remove a stunning blue feather from the bird. This feather is then offered to the bride-to-be and is wrapped around her finger. The blue from the feather will stain her finger. Mark Drysdale Continue
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