ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE ROLLERS
Cuckoo Roller description
The Kirombos are rather tame birds, living mostly in small family parties of ten or a dozen individuals, the males always being more numerous than the females. The following account of their habits is from Grandidier: “They frequently fly during the day at great altitudes, soaring like birds of prey in circles above the treetops. But during the pairing season they exhibit the greatest excitement —
when they rise from time to time obliquely into the air with violent flaps of their wings, which they then half close and allow themselves to descend to the treetops, to again at once ascend, and thus they continue for some time, and then glide, uttering at intervals a mournful and plaintive cry, dreo-dreo, at the same time puffing out their throats and erecting the feathers on their heads.”
They are so sociable and devoted to each other that should one be wounded out of a flock the others will remain close by, hovering over the disabled bird or perching on near-by trees. Their nests are said to be placed in holes in trees, or occasionally under overhanging banks; the eggs are pure white.
The Comoran Kirombo
(L. gracilis) is similar to the other species except that it is smaller and the female somewhat paler in general coloration. Little is known regarding its habits, although they probably resemble those of its larger relative.
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