Английская Википедия:Coracias
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Coracias is a genus of the rollers, an Old World family of near passerine birds related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters. They share the colourful appearance of those groups, blues and browns predominating. The two outer front toes are connected, but not the inner one.
Taxonomy
The genus Coracias was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.[1] The genus name is from Ancient Greek korakías (Шаблон:Lang),[2] derived from korax (Шаблон:Lang, ‘raven, crow’).[3] Aristotle described the coracias as a bird as big as a crow with a red beak,[4] which some believe to be the chough.[5] The type species was designated as the European roller (Coracias garrulus) by George Robert Gray in 1855.[6][7]
The phylogenetic relationships among the species were determined in a molecular study published in 2018.[8]
Species
Nine species are recognized:[9]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Файл:Coracias naevia -20090426B.jpg | Purple roller | Coracias naevius | sub-Saharan Africa |
| Файл:Indian roller (Coracias benghalensis) Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg | Indian roller | Coracias benghalensis | Western Asia to Indian Subcontinent |
| Файл:Coracias affinis - Kaeng Krachan.jpg | Indochinese roller | Coracias affinis | eastern India to southeast Asia |
| Файл:Purple-winged Roller Coracias temminckii - Flickr - Lip Kee.jpg | Purple-winged roller | Coracias temminckii | Islands of Sulawesi, Bangka, Lembeh, Manterawu, Muna and Butung. |
| Файл:Coracias spatulata 1zz.jpg | Racket-tailed roller | Coracias spatulatus | southern Africa from Angola, south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Tanzania to northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique |
| Файл:Lilac breated Roller.JPG | Lilac-breasted roller | Coracias caudatus | sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula |
| Файл:Coracias abyssinica - Carlos Vermeersch Santana.JPG | Abyssinian roller | Coracias abyssinicus | tropical Africa in a belt south of the Sahara, known as the Sahel |
| Файл:European Roller (Coracias garrulus) (16475688389).jpg | European roller | Coracias garrulus | Middle East, Central Asia, Mediterranean and eastern Europe. |
| Файл:Blue-bellied Roller RWD5.jpg | Blue-bellied roller | Coracias cyanogaster | Senegal to northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Former species
Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Coracias:
- Olive-backed oriole (as Coracias sagittata)[10]
- Eurasian golden oriole (as Coracias oriolus)[11]
- Black-hooded oriole (as Coracias xanthornus)[12]
- Broad-billed roller (as Coracias glaucurus)[13]
- Broad-billed roller (afer) (as Coracias afra)[14]
- Oriental dollarbird (as Coracias orientalis)[15]
- Australian roller (as Coracias pacifica)[16]
Behaviour and ecology
Coracias rollers are watch-and wait hunters. They sit in a tree or on a post before descending on their prey and carrying it back in the beak to a perch before dismembering it. A wide range of terrestrial invertebrates, and small vertebrates such as frogs, lizards rodents and young birds, are taken. Their prey includes items avoided by many other birds, such as hairy caterpillars, insects with warning colouration and snakes.[17] They often perch prominently whilst hunting, like giant shrikes.
References
External links
- Roller videos on the Internet Bird Collection
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