Emerald Starling
Lamprotornis iris(Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1879)
English (US) Emerald Starling
The Emerald Starling (Lamprotornis iris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Sturnidae (Rhabdornis, Starlings, and Mynas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: wooded savanna of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Ivory CoastRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Lamprotornis iris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Emerald Starling
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1879)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Coccycolius iris
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1879)
- Type locality
- Los Islands, Portuguese Guinea [ = , probably, interior of French Guinea].
- Original description
- Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (7), 3 p.85
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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