Meves's starling

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Meves's starling
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In Mapungubwe National Park, Limpopo, South Africa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Lamprotornis
Species:
L. mevesii
Binomial name
Lamprotornis mevesii
(Wahlberg, 1856)
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      native range

Meves's starling (Lamprotornis mevesii) or Meves's glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German ornithologist Friedrich Wilhelm Meves. [2]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Lamprotornis mevesii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T103871956A94258807. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103871956A94258807.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ↑ 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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