Lilac Breasted Roller

Photographer: John Bridges
From: Day 6: A Day in the Delta

Lilac Breasted Roller

This bird-on-a-stick is literally a bird on a stick. The Lilac Breasted Roller perches rather blatantly at the tops of trees, poles or other high vantage points from where it spots insects, lizards, scorpions, snails, frogs, small birds and rodents moving about on the ground.