European Roller

The European Roller (Coracias garrulus) is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. It lives in the Middle East, Central Asia and Morocco.
The European Roller is found in a variety range of habitats. It winters in dry wooded savanna and bushy plains, where it nests in tree holes.
Description
The European Roller is a bird, the size of a Eurasian jay. It is mainly blue with an orange-brown back.
The call is a harsh-crow like sound.
Distribution and habitat
The European Roller is a bird of warmer regions. It breeds in Northern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, in south and east-central Europe, and Iran to Siberia. The subspecies breeds from Iraq and Iran to Kashmir and Kazakhstan to Xinjiang. The European Roller has a long distance migrant, wintering in Africa south of the Sahara, in two distinct regions, from Senegal to Cameroon and from Ethiopia to Congo and south to South Africa. Some populations migrate to Africa through India.