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 LC    Lesser Blue-eared Starling* Id (Atlas):
    Lamprotornis chloropterus

Description (10)
Image of Lesser Blue-eared Starling
 

Other Names (World)
Lesser Blue-eared Starling, Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling, Swainson's Green-tailed Glossy-Starling, Miombo Blue-eared Starling (elisabeth), Miombo Blue-eared Glossy-Starling (elisabeth), Southern Lesser Blue-eared Starling (elisabeth), Southern Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling (elisabeth)

Family
Sturnidae (Starlings)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Swainson, 1838

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

 
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) [XC210342]
     by Andrew Spencer from Gambela, trail from the Metu road to the Baro River, Ethiopia (call)

 
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) [XC210343]
     by id from Gambela, Dembidolo Road, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) and Miombo Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis elisabeth) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include elisabeth as a subspecies of Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus). This treatment is under review by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group.

May form a superspecies with Sharp-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus). Subspecies sometimes treated as two distinct species, forming a superspecies.

Proposed subspecies cyanogenys (described from Sennar, in Sudan) is regarded as a synonym of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • chloropterus Swainson, 1838   -  Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, Mali and Ivory Coast east to southern Chad, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, western Ethiopia, Eritrea, northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
  • elisabeth (Stresemann, 1924)   -  Southern Kenya to northern Botswana and Zimbabwe.



References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) - 10 files


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