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Revision as of 20:49, 9 October 2007

Photo by juninho
Photographed: Ulu, Kenya.

Diet consists of fruit, seeds, nectar and insects (including beetles, termites, grasshoppers).

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 ;Lamprotornis chloropterus
-[[Image:Lesser_Blue-eared_Glossy_Starling.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by juninho]]
+[[Image:Lesser_Blue-eared_Glossy_Starling.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by juninho <br/>Photographed: Ulu, Kenya. ]]
 ==Identification==
-Photographed: Ulu, Kenya.
 ==Distribution==
-Africa - there are 2 populations; one in the northern tropics between 5°N and 15°N from the West coast to Ethiopia and NW Kenya. The second population extends from Eastern Tanzania south through Mozambique, Zambia to Zimbabwe.
+[[Africa]]
-Kenya: Locally common in western Kenya above 1000m with a second coastal population occurring below 500m (this may be the northern most point of the Tanzania-Zimbabwe population).
 ==Taxonomy==
 ==Habitat==
 ==Behaviour==
-Outside the breeding season this is a social species often found in noisy flocks. They seem to prefer ground feeding and their diet consists of fruit, seeds, nectar and insects (including beetles, termites, grasshoppers etc).
+Diet consists of fruit, seeds, nectar and insects (including beetles, termites, grasshoppers).
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