Bronze-tailed Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis chalcurus)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Senegambia, northern Guinea-Bissau, southern Mali, northern Guinea, northern Ivory Coast and southern Burkina Faso eastern (mainly in savanna belt) to southern Chad, Central African Republic, south-western Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

Bronze-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis chalcurus) [XC689966]
by Bram Piot from Coagri, Quinh\u00e1mel, Biombo, Guinea-Bissau (call)

Bronze-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis chalcurus) [XC378466]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Karfiguela, Como\u00e9, Burkina Faso (song)

Subspecies
Populations from northern Cameroon east to western Kenya often separated as subspecies emini (described from Uganda), supposedly somewhat more violet on rump and slightly longer-tailed than those in west of range. However, variation appears to be clinal, and further study required.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

chalcurus Nordmann, 1835 - Western, central, esst-central.
emini (Neumann, 1920) - Eastern Cameroon to south-western Sudan, South Sudan, extreme north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Uganda, and extreme western Kenya.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Bronze-tailed Glossy-Starling (Lamprotornis chalcurus) - 10 files

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