World's strangest animals (birds): Coracias caudata.

The lilac tail roller or swallowtail (in Latin, Coracias caudata) is a medium-sized bird of the family of breeders, almost all of whose representatives inhabit the African continent. It is the national bird of Botswana and Kenya.

SourceIt is almost impossible to confuse a lilac breast roller with any other bird. The bright lilac chest, the blue or bright blue belly, the pale green nape, the pale brown wings at the top and the bright blue below, and the wing tips of the feathers and tail, black with a dye metallic, they add to all this splendor. In short, the plumage is exceptional.

The length of the body can reach 45 cm. They are huge, and the flight is elegant, light and safe.

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Lifestyle

High mountain forests are preferred by open spaces with a small number of trees, rarely shrubs and agricultural lands. For the latter, they do not tolerate any damage at all, on the contrary, they eat many pests, in particular, caterpillars and insects, which greatly help local farmers. The diet also includes spiders, scorpions and, in the absence of the best, and small lizards.

SourceA way of life, lonely proud, but everything changes dramatically after creating a pair, whose halves remain faithful until the end of their days. This is surprisingly quiet and to some extent even quiet birds ... but the arrival of the mating season makes its own adjustments to behavior.

Trying to obtain the location of the females, the males spend days and days obtaining their piercing and incredibly strong trills, which consist of a single melody. Finish the flirt with an impressive aerial dance performed by a boyfriend.

Breeding

SourceGenerally they put 1-3 eggs. In the incubation, feeding and raising of children, both parents are equally involved. Having reached independence, at the age of 3-4 months, the chicks leave the paternal nest forever.

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