Meves's starling
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| In Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa | |
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| Species: | L. mevesii
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| Lamprotornis mevesii (Wahlberg, 1856)
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Meves's starling or Meves's glossy-starling (Lamprotornis mevesii) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German ornithologist Friederich Wilhelm Meves.[2]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 233.
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External links
- Meves's starling = Longtailed Starling - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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