Starlings (Sturnidae)
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) - HBW 14, p. 750
French: Choucador de Swainson
German: Messingglanzstar
Spanish: Estornino de Swainson
Other common names: Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling, Swainson's Green-tailed Glossy Starling; Miombo Blue-eared/Southern Lesser Blue-eared (Glossy) Starling (elisabeth)
Taxonomy: Lamprotornis chloropterus Swainson, 1838, Western Africa.
May form a superspecies with L. acuticaudus. Races sometimes treated as two distinct species, forming a superspecies. Proposed race cyanogenys (described from Sennar, in Sudan) is regarded as a synonym of nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- chloropterus Swainson, 1838 - Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, N Sierra Leone, Mali and Ivory Coast E to S Chad, Central African Republic, S Sudan, W Ethiopia, Eritrea, N Uganda and NW Kenya.
- elisabeth ( Stresemann, 1924) - SW Uganda, SE Kenya, Tanzania, SE DRCongo, Zambia and Malawi S to extreme NE Namibia (E Caprivi), W Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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bird perching Locality Marakissa, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chloropterus)
Daniêl Jimenez 3 January 2012 15 weeks ago 16 sec 4.6 -
A bird feeding on the ground Locality Nianing, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 1 January 2009 2 years ago 30 sec 4 -
different shots Locality Nianing, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 1 January 2009 2 years ago 22 sec 4 -
A bird drinking from a drinking tap, and bathing in a puddle of water beneath it. Locality Senegambia Hotel, Kololi, Western Division, The Gambia (Monotypic species)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 November 2008 3 years ago 39 sec 4 -
A bird perched Locality Butiaba Escarpment, Uganda (ssp chloropterus)
Josep del Hoyo 30 August 2006 5 years ago 26 sec 3.8 -
A bird on a branch Locality Nianing, Thiès Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 31 December 2006 4 years ago 11 sec 3.6
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Adult perched on a pole.
Locality Jemmu Valley, Ethiopia (ssp chloropterus)
Ken Havard 30 October 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3.8 -
Adult bird perching.
Locality Plzen Zoo, Plzen, Plzen Region, Czech Republic (ssp elisabeth)
Tomasz Doroń 23 October 2011 30 weeks ago 3 -
A perched bird.
Locality Kololi, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chloropterus)
Fran Trabalon 14 October 2006 1 year ago 2.2 -
Two birds perching.
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
papou 26 July 2009 2 years ago 2
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