Starlings (Sturnidae)
Splendid Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis splendidus) - HBW 14, p. 747
French: Choucador splendide
German: Prachtglanzstar
Spanish: Estornino Espléndido
Taxonomy: T[urdus] splendidus Vieillot, 1822, Malimbe, Cabinda, Angola.
Races bailundensis intergrades with nominate in N Angola (Malanje). Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- chrysonotis Swainson, 1837 - from Senegal E along coast to S Togo.
- splendidus ( Vieillot, 1822) - S Benin, Nigeria, Príncipe I (in Gulf of Guinea) and C & S Cameroon E to S Sudan and W Ethiopia, S to PRCongo, N Angola, C DRCongo, Uganda, W Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and NW Tanzania.
- lessoni ( Pucheran, 1859) - Bioko I (Fernando Póo).
- bailundensis ( Neumann, 1920) - N & E Angola, S DRCongo and Zambia.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A perched bird, calling Locality Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 31 sec 4 -
A bird calling in a tree Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 41 sec 3.8 -
A perched bird Locality Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 24 sec 3.5 -
in the fig tree Locality Mandinaba, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chrysonotis)
Daniêl Jimenez 24 December 2011 1 year ago 7 sec 3.2 -
A bird in a tree, calling Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 26 sec 2.8 -
A bird calling in the canopy Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 3 years ago 23 sec 2.7
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Starling rummaging in the Garden.
Locality Ggaba, Kampala, Uganda
ddarbela 1 January 2011 2 years ago 3.6 -
A bird on a branch
Locality Ngaoundaba Ranch, Ngaoundéré, Adamawa Province, Cameroon
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 13 February 2012 49 weeks ago 3.2 -
in tree
Locality Bare, East Province, Rwanda
Jason Anderson 7 March 2010 2 years ago 2.4 -
Three of a group of fifteen birds in a much larger mixed feeding flock.
Locality Gunjur, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp chrysonotis)
M P Goodey 1 March 1999 1 year ago 2.3
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A bird calling. Locality Kakum National Park, Central Region, Ghana
Juan Sanabria 1 November 2009 19 weeks ago 4
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