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Photo by M Cowming
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, August 2005

Lamprotornis unicolor

Cosmopsarus unicolor, Spreo unicolor

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Africa: found in southern Kenya and Tanzania.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

This species has been placed in Lamprotornis^2,3, Cosmopsarus^4,5 and Spreo¹.

[edit] Habitat

Acacia woodlands, gardens

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to December 2007 (Corrigenda 7). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
3. Gill, F and M Wright. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276. Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
4. Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
5. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154
6. BF Member observations

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