Starlings (Sturnidae)
Black-bellied Glossy Starling (Notopholia corrusca) - HBW 14, p. 757
French: Choucador à ventre noir
German: Schwarzbauch-Glanzstar
Spanish: Estornino Ventrinegro
Other common names: Black-bellied Starling, Black-breasted Glossy Starling
Taxonomy: L[amprotornis] corrusca Nordmann, 1835, Southern Africa = Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Genus often subsumed into Lamprotornis. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- corrusca ( Nordmann, 1835) - S Somalia S in narrow belt along coast to Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and E South Africa, extending inland along some major rivers (thus reaches extreme SE Zimbabwe).
- vaughani ( Bannerman, 1926) - Pemba I, off NE Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male feeding on berries before flying away Locality De Hoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape Province, South Africa (ssp corrusca)
Greg Baker 2 October 2002 32 weeks ago 17 sec 4.3 -
An adult drinking water and flying away Locality Mkuze Game Reserve, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa (ssp corruscus)
Francesc Capdevila i Torr... 8 October 2002 9 years ago 25 sec 3.9
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On a branch
Locality Mkuze, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa
Guy Poisson 4 November 2012 21 weeks ago 4 -
A young bird on a wall of a cow farm in the village of Elmasudiya ,Sudan
Locality Sudan
hythumm 8 September 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
Starling drinking
Locality El Mas‘udiya, Blue Nile State, Sudan
hythumm 17 September 2012 1 year ago 3.5 -
Three birds drinking water from a water tank in a cow farm
Locality El Mas‘udiya, Blue Nile State, Sudan
hythumm 8 September 2011 1 year ago 3.5 -
A bird inside the village
Locality El Mas‘udiya, Blue Nile State, Sudan
hythumm 8 September 2011 1 year ago 3.1 -
A bird on a wire
Locality El Mas‘udiya, Blue Nile State, Sudan
hythumm 15 October 2011 1 year ago 3.1
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