Starlings (Sturnidae)
Fischer's Starling (Lamprotornis fischeri) - HBW 14, p. 749
French: Spréo de Fischer
German: Fischerglanzstar
Spanish: Estornino de Fischer
Taxonomy: Notauges Fischeri Reichenow, 1884, plains near Pare Mountains, Moshi District, south of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
Until recently was usually placed in genus Spreo; has also been placed with L. unicolor and L. regius in a separate genus, Cosmopsarus. Monotypic.
Distribution: SE Ethiopia, S Somalia, E Kenya and NE Tanzania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on a feeder Locality World of Birds, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa (Monotypic species)
Jordi Sargatal 15 August 1998 5 years ago 12 sec 2.8 -
Bird eating on a bird table Locality Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, Great Britain
Joe Angseesing 14 March 2007 3 years ago 31 sec 2.7
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An adult bird calling.
Locality Tsavo East National Park, Kenya
Piotr Jonczyk 21 September 2011 31 weeks ago 4.2 -
part of a flock
Locality Tsavo East National Park, Kenya
Marco Valentini 5 February 2012 13 weeks ago 3.9 -
Near Shaba springs
Locality Samburu-Buffalo Springs National Reserves, Kenya
Marco Valentini 29 July 2006 1 year ago 3.5 -
Individual foraging on the ground
Locality Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
Bruno Schmetz 11 October 2008 3 years ago 3.3
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