Shelley's Starling
Lamprotornis shelleyi(Sharpe, RB, 1890)
English (US) Shelley's Starling
The Shelley's Starling (Lamprotornis shelleyi) 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: breeds southeastern South Sudan, southern and eastern Ethiopia, and northern Somalia; partial resident, but nonbreeders withdraw from Somalia and northeastern Ethiopia, disperses southward to southern Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Lamprotornis shelleyi
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Shelley's Starling
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1890)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Spreo shelleyi
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1890)
- Type locality
- Somaliland.
- Original description
- Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum 13 p.190
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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