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'''Alternative name: Ruppell's Long-tailed Glossy Starling''' | '''Alternative name: Ruppell's Long-tailed Glossy Starling''' | ||
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[[Image:Rueppells_Glossy_Starling.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Andrew S <br/ >Photographed at Bishangari Lodge, Lake Langano, [[Ethiopia]].]] | [[Image:Rueppells_Glossy_Starling.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Andrew S <br/ >Photographed at Bishangari Lodge, Lake Langano, [[Ethiopia]].]] | ||
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''Lamprotornis purpuropterus'' | ''Lamprotornis purpuropterus'' | ||
Revision as of 11:16, 30 November 2008
Alternative name: Ruppell's Long-tailed Glossy Starling
- Lamprotornis purpuroptera
Lamprotornis purpuropterus
Identification
Distribution
Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Taxonomy
Lamprotornis purpuroptera has two subspecies:1
- L. p. aeneocephalus
- Eritrea, Sudan and northern Ethiopia
- L. p. purpuroptera
- Southern Ethiopia to Somalia, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and Tanzania
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Rüppell's Starling. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/R%C3%BCppell%27s_Starling
