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 LC    Purple Glossy-Starling* Id (Atlas):
    Lamprotornis purpureus

Description (10)
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Family
Sturnidae (Starlings)

Size
27 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Müller, 1776)

Habitat
Dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.

Vagrant to Mauritania.

Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, southern Mali and northern Guinea eastern (mainly in savanna belt) to southern Chad, northern Central African Republic, southern Sudan, Uganda and western Kenya.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

 
Purple Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus) [XC513835]
     by Sun Madakan from Nema Ba, Fatick, Senegal (call)

 
Purple Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus) [XC405683]
     by Bram Piot from Kedougou (fleuve Gambie), Senegal (call)

Subspecies
Populations from Cameroon east to western Kenya often separated as subspecies amethystinus (described from southern Sudan), supposedly somewhat bluer above and slightly longer-tailed than those in west of range. Further study is required.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

  • purpureus (Müller, 1776)   -  Western, central.
  • amethystinus (Heuglin, 1863)   -  Cameroon to western Kenya.



References
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Files:
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