Blue bird of friendliness

[fivemack]

And this is why I carried a five-kilo lens across two continents

Comments

[simont]

If the pictures on Wikipedia are anything to go by, it looks a lot more like a European Roller than an Abyssinian one. The colours of the former look closer to the ones in your photo, and the Abyssinian one's tail feathers are totally different whereas yours and the European look to match pretty closely.