Sharpe's Starling
Pholia sharpii(Jackson, FJ, 1898)
English (US) Sharpe's Starling
The Sharpe's Starling (Pholia sharpii) 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: patchily distributed in Ethiopia, southeastern South Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pholia sharpii
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Sharpe's Starling
- Described by
- (Jackson, FJ, 1898)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pholidauges sharpii
- Described by
- (Jackson, FJ, 1898)
- Type locality
- 'Nandi, Kenya', but type from Eldama Ravine, fide Sclater (1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 655).
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 8 p.22
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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