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Alternative name: Ruppell's Long-tailed Glossy Starling

Lamprotornis purpuroptera

Photo by Andrew S
Photographed at Bishangari Lodge, Lake Langano, Ethiopia.

Lamprotornis purpuropterus

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

[edit] Taxonomy

Lamprotornis purpuroptera has two subspecies:¹

• L. p. aeneocephalus

• Eritrea, Sudan and northern Ethiopia

• L. p. purpuroptera

• Southern Ethiopia to Somalia, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya and Tanzania

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[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.

• List of references

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