Eurasian Roller
Coracias garrulus garrulus Linnaeus, 1758
Көкқарға
adult Eastern Kazakhstan oblast. Beskaragai region.
- on the site
- 52 observationslast: 10 Jul 2022
Description
Brown on mantle is darker; the head, neck, underparts, great and median upperwing coverts are more bluish and less greenish tinged than semenowi.
Distribution
Breeds in Volga-Ural interfluves near flood-gates of reservoirs, in Ural basin, in Naurzum Reserve, in Irtysh valley upwards to Semipalatinsk, and also on Altai in Uba valley near Shemonaikha village. In summer recorded in Pavlodar Trans-Irtysh area. On migration occurs to the south from breeding range. Vagrant bird observed 28 May 1982 on Markakol lake.
