Narrow-tailed Starling
Poeoptera lugubrisBonaparte, CLJL, 1854
English (US) Narrow-tailed Starling
The Narrow-tailed Starling (Poeoptera lugubris) 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: Sierra Leone to northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Uganda; BiokoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Poeoptera lugubris
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Narrow-tailed Starling
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1854
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Bonaparte, CLJL, 1854
- Type locality
- No locality = Gabon, fide Hartlaub, 1857, S3^st. Orn. Westafr., p. 69.
- Original description
- Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 38 p.381
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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