Sharp-tailed starling

Sharp-tailed starling
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sturnidae
Genus:	Lamprotornis
Species:	L. acuticaudus
Binomial name
Lamprotornis acuticaudus (Barboza du Bocage, 1869)
native range

The sharp-tailed starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus), also known as the sharp-tailed glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

Range

It inhabits open woodland (namely miombo) in Angola, northern Botswana, the southern DRC, northern Namibia, western Tanzania, and Zambia.

Illustration of tail shape

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Lamprotornis acuticaudus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22710710A94257919. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710710A94257919.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.

External links

• Sharp-tailed starling - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds