When you hear a bird's chirp, what do you hear? In Africa, you can hear multiple birds, but the raaking of the Lilac Breasted Roller, makes its own unique noise of squawking. Its cackle even caught some people's attention, thinking it is the harsh call of a steam train. Their scientific name is coracias caudatus, also inspired by Latin. It's one of the many animals in the animalia kingdom, and in the coraciidae family, also simplified to "rainbow rollers". They are in corcacias genus, the group of nine species of rollers. As these Lilac Breasted Rollers began to increase in popularity, people have given these list of names to call them: fork-tail roller, Lilac Throated Roller and Mosilikatze's Roller.

Lilac Breasted Roller are commonly seen at sea level and above, to 2000 metres above or over in East and South Africa. They are found up on high trees, nesting and feeing in the open savannah habitats filled with scattered trees and shrubs, leaving them to not be migratory birds. As well was that, they are also found in the southern part of Arabian Peninsula, in the African parts: Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, excluding the deserts.

Normally, the Lilac Breasted Roller will have a robust body with a large green head and a black beak. Both males and females are recognised to have the same colour. The areas above its eyes, beak also the breast, are all dark lilac. Its chin is the colour of white. Before they grow up, the juvenile rollers don't have black streamers, and their throats and breast are reddish brown. As they reach maturity, their throats and breast turn lilac. The underside of their wings and abdomen are all turquoise. While the underside of their wing are trimmed with dark blue, the upperpart of their wings are reddish brown. Their tails are streamers of turquoise then ends with black tips. Generally, Lilac Breasted Rollers are 36 to 38 centimetres long (including its tail, being 8 to 9 centimetres long). It weighs at an average of 104 grams, although males are slightly larger than females.

This bird, one of the nine species of rollers, one of the five roller species in Southern Africa. Lilac Breasted Rollers, coloured with rich, vibrant, green, white, black, turquoise, yellow, reddish brown, dark blue and of course lilac, are all gathered up upon the eye-catching bird.