Biology:Lesser blue-eared starling

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Short description: Species of bird

Lesser blue-eared starling
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus), Koubalan, Senegal.jpg
L. c. chloropterus in Senegal
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Lamprotornis
Species:
L. chloropterus
Binomial name
Lamprotornis chloropterus
Swainson, 1838
Afrika Verbreitungsgebiet-Distribuion area Lamprotornis chloropterus.png
Ranges of northern and southern race
     L. c. chloropterus
     L. c. elisabeth

The lesser blue-eared starling or lesser blue-eared glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

An immature bird in Ghana, moulting into adult plumage

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q948103 entry