We started our visit to Botswana with an afternoon safari in Chobe National Park. The wildlife, vegetation and the landscape are truly unique.
One of the first birds seen in the park was the Lilac-Breasted Roller.
The Lilac-breasted Roller prefers to reside in open woodland and savanna. Usually found alone or in pairs, it perches at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it can spot insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, small birds and rodents moving about at ground level.
The sexes are alike in coloration but juveniles do not have the long tail feathers that adults do.
The photo of the roller shown above was taken just after we entered Chobe National Park from the western entrance near the Namibia border.
This species is the national bird of Botswana.
For more information about Botswana
- African Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) at Chobe National Park
- Botswana – Chobe National Park – Elephants
- Eagle at Chobe National Park
- Early Morning Safari – It was worth it to see the Leopard
- Elephants at Sundown at Chobe National Park
- Elephants in Chobe National Park
- Giraffes at Chobe National Park
- Hippopotamus on the Chobe River
- Lilac-breasted Roller – (Coracias caudatus) – Chobe National Park
- Lions at Chobe National Park
- Nile Crocodile at Chobe National Park
- Nile Monitor – Chobe National Park
- Puff Adder at Chobe National Park
- Southern Ground Hornbill – Chobe National Park
- Sunset at Chobe National Park
- Vervet Monkeys at Chobe National Park
- White Egret at Chobe National Park
For more information about birds
- African Fish-Eagle (Haliaeetus vocifer) at Chobe National Park
- Arabian Babbler
- Blue and White Wren – Malurus leucopterus
- Blue Wren
- Eagle at Chobe National Park
- Lilac-breasted Roller – (Coracias caudatus) – Chobe National Park
- Little Eagle – Hieraaetus morphnoides
- Robin Redbreast – Petroica multicolour
- Southern Ground Hornbill – Chobe National Park
- Sunset at Chobe National Park
- White Egret at Chobe National Park