Shelley's starling
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| Species: | L. shelleyi
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| Lamprotornis shelleyi (Sharpe, 1890)
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Shelley's starling (Lamprotornis shelleyi) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Tanzania.
The common name and Latin binomial commemorate George Ernest Shelley, an English ornithologist and nephew of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.[2]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. Christopher Helm. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-7136-6647-2. OCLC 54616507.
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