Sharp-tailed starling

Sharp-tailed starling
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Lamprotornis
Species: L. acuticaudus
Binomial name
Lamprotornis acuticaudus
(Barboza du Bocage, 1870)
range

The Sharp-tailed starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus), also known as the Sharp-tailed glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

Range

It is found in Angola, northern Botswana, the southern DRC, northern Namibia, western Tanzania, and Zambia.

Illustration of tail shape

References


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