Lesser blue-eared starling

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Lesser blue-eared starling
L. c. chloropterus in The Gambia
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L. chloropterus
Binomial name
Lamprotornis chloropterus
Swainson, 1838
Ranges of northern and southern race
     L. c. chloropterus
     L. c. elisabeth
An immature bird in Ghana, moulting into adult plumage

The lesser blue-eared starling or lesser blue-eared glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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