The bright blue European Roller (Coracias garrulus) breeds in southern and eastern Europe through to Siberia and winters in Africa.
These specimens from Carnegie Museum of Natural History are preserved as both study skins and a taxidermy mount. The Section of Birds is home to several drawers of eight species of rollers in the genus Coracias, which are part of the museum’s large holding of birds from Africa and Europe and were collected between 1891 and 1982.
