Splendid starling
(Redirected from Splendid glossy-starling)
Splendid starling | |
---|---|
At Kakum National Park, Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Sturnidae |
Genus: | Lamprotornis |
Species: | L. splendidus
|
Binomial name | |
Lamprotornis splendidus (Vieillot, 1822)
| |
native range in green |
The splendid starling (Lamprotornis splendidus), also known as the splendid glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.
Range
It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia[citation needed] — and is introduced in Belgium.[2]
Gallery
-
A pair in Cameroon
-
Eggs of L. splendidus – MHNT
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Lamprotornis splendidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22710716A132089823. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22710716A132089823.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ GBIF Splendid starling
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Articles with 'species' microformats
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021
- Lamprotornis
- Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
- Birds of the Gulf of Guinea
- Birds described in 1822
- Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot
- Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
- All stub articles
- Sturnidae stubs