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Rueppells Starling

Lamprotornis purpuroptera

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8 Comments

CarolSnowMilne
CarolSnowMilne 12 years ago

Great as usual!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 12 years ago

Fabulous colours. I learned somewhere that the birds of paradise in Papua may have evolved from starlings. This one certainly supports the idea. Thanks.

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

You're welcome Cindy!

CindyCor
CindyCor 12 years ago

Yes DanielePralong...It is a Rueppells Starling. I have corrected it. THANK-YOU !!!!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 years ago

Hi Cindy! This is not a superb starling. The superb starling is quite well described in the following link complete with pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superb_Star...
There are also quite a few pics of the superb starling on Noah.
This may be Ruppell's starling. Maybe Noah in-house bird gurus Atul, Liam and Malcolm can confirm!

VivBraznell
VivBraznell 12 years ago

What a striking bird!

Ryan21
Ryan21 12 years ago

What beautiful colours it has!!
Great find!!!

Atul
Atul 12 years ago

its indeed superb!!

CindyCor
Spotted by
CindyCor

Kenya

Spotted on Sep 3, 2008
Submitted on Dec 13, 2011

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