Sharpe's starling
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| Species: | C. sharpii
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| Cinnyricinclus sharpii (Jackson, 1898)
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Sharpe's starling (Cinnyricinclus sharpii) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[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. 309.
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