lesser blue-eared glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling - Gambia 17_CD5A1282
Date 12 January 2017, 18:18
Source Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling - Gambia 17_CD5A1282
Author Francesco Veronesi from Italy https://www.flickr.com/people/30818542@N04
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesser_Blue-eared_Glossy-Starling_-_Gambia_(32649405505).jpg
The lesser blue-eared starling or lesser blue-eared glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Lamprotornis
Species: Lamprotornis chloropterus Swainson, 1838