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 LC    Tristram's Starling* Id (Atlas):
    Onychognathus tristramii

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Tristram's Starling, Tristram's Red-winged Starling, Tristram's Grackle

Family
Sturnidae (Starlings)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Sclater, 1858)

Habitat
Hot desert, urban areas. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)
Egypt, Israel (B) (NB), Jordan (B) (NB), Oman (B), Palestinian Authority Territories (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Yemen (B).

Eastern and southern Israel, Palestine and western Jordan south to extreme north-eastern Egypt (Sinai) and western Arabian Peninsula (south to Yemen).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (63)...)

 
Tristram's Starling (Onychognathus tristramii) [XC126939]
     by Sander Bot from Masada, Israel (call)

 
Tristram's Starling (Onychognathus tristramii) [XC529123]
     by Marcel Gil Velasco from Dhofar Governorate, Oman (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Has been thought to form a superspecies with Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio).


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Tristrams Starling (Onychognathus tristramii) - 10 files


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