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    (c) Christian Artuso, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) David J Barton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Hildebrandt's Starling

Lamprotornis hildebrandti

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Hildebrandt's Starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It forms a superspecies with and has previously been included in the same species as Shelley's Starling, a migratory species ranging from Ethiopia and Somalia to Kenya. Both of these species have also been combined into a superspecies with the chestnut-bellied starling of West Africa. It was originally placed in the now defunct genus Notauges. The species is named for Johann Maria Hildebrandt,...

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