Lamprotornis
Hildebrandt's Starling (Lamprotornis hildebrandti)
The range of this species extends from north-central Kenya, south to north-central Tanzania.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Hix
Shelley's Starling (Lamprotornis shelleyi)
The range of this species extends from eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia, south to northeast Tanzania and southeast Kenya; populations in southeast and southern Ethiopia, and adjacent extreme southeast South Sudan, are resident with those populations to the north representing summer breeding populations, and those to the south representing wintering populations.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Burchell's Starling (Lamprotornis australis)
The range of this species extends throughout south-central Africa, from southern Angola south to east-central Namibia, and east from here through southwest Zambia and Botswana to north-central South Africa; a disjunct population exists in Swaziland and adjacent northeast South Africa and southernmost Mozambique.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Maguari
Long-tailed Glossy Starling (Lamprotornis caudatus)
The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to south-central Sudan and southwest South Sudan in the east.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@savethelephant
Rüppell's Starling (Lamprotornis purpuroptera)
The range of this species extends patchily throughout much of east-central Africa from southeast Sudan and Eritrea in the north to Rwanda, Burundi and northwest Tanzania in the south.
Two subspecies recognised:
L. p. aeneocephalus - photo by
@ThylacineAlive
L. p. purpuroptera
Benguela Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis benguelensis)
The range of this species is restricted to the western escarpment of southwest Angola.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Cunene Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis violacior)
The range of this species is restricted to southwest Angola and immediately-adjacent northwest Namibia.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Meves's Long-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis mevesii)
The range of this species extends patchily throughout south-central Africa, from northeast Zambia in the north to southernmost Zimbabwe and northernmost South Africa in the south, and west to southeast Angola.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Vision
Ashy Starling (Lamprotornis unicolor)
The range of this species is restricted to the central interior of Tanzania.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Hix
Principe Starling (Lamprotornis ornatus)
Endemic to Principe Island.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Splendid Starling (Lamprotornis splendidus)
The range of this species extends throughout western and central Africa, from Senegal in the west to central Uganda in the east, and south to northern Angola and north-central Zambia; a disjunct population exists in southwest Ethiopia and adjacent southeast South Sudan.
Four subspecies are recognised:
L. s. chrysonotis
L. s. splendidus
L. s. lessoni
L. s. bailundensis
Photo by
@Tomek
Golden-breasted Starling (Lamprotornis regius)
The range of this species extends from eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia, south to northeast Tanzania.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@ronnienl
Superb Starling (Lamprotornis superbus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of eastern Africa, from central Ethiopia and northern Somalia in the north, to south-central Tanzania in the south.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Hix
Chestnut-bellied Starling (Lamprotornis pulcher)
The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to the Red Sea coastline of Sudan and Eritrea in the east.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
African Pied Starling (Lamprotornis bicolor)
The range of this species extends throughout much of South Africa barring the northernmost and easternmost regions of the country, and into Lesotho and the extreme west of Swaziland.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@LSouthern
White-crowned Starling (Lamprotornis albicapillus)
The range of this species extends throughout northwest Somalia and southeast Ethiopia, and into northern Kenya.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Fischer's Starling (Lamprotornis fischeri)
The range of this species extends from southern Somalia and southeast Ethiopia in the north, to northeast Tanzania in the south.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Sharp-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of south-central Africa, from central Angola in the west to southeast DRC and northern Zambia in the east, and south into northwest Botswana.
Two subspecies recognised:
L. a. acuticaudus
L. a. ecki
No photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Lesser Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus)
The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations; throughout the Sahel and areas of sub-Saharan Africa directly to the south, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea and northern Ethiopia in the east and south to central Uganda; and from south-central Tanzania in the north to Zimbabwe and west-central Mozambique in the south.
Two subspecies recognised:
L. c. chloropterus - photo by
@alexkant
L. c. elisabeth
Purple Starling (Lamprotornis purpureus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of the Sahel, from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to southwest Sudan in the east, and from here southeast through South Sudan into Uganda.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@SMR
Bronze-tailed Starling (Lamprotornis chalcurus)
The range of this species extends throughout much of western and central Africa, from Senegal and Guinea-Bissau in the west to South Sudan and northern Uganda in the east.
Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present in the Zoochat gallery.
Cape Starling (Lamprotornis nitens)
The range of this species extends throughout much of southern Africa, from northwest Angola in the west to central Zimbabwe in the east, and south into the majority of South Africa barring the southern and southwest Cape.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@Vision
Greater Blue-eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus)
The range of this species extends throughout the Sahel from southern Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Eritrea and northwest Ethiopia in the east, south throughout eastern Africa to southernmost Mozambique and northeast South Africa, and west from here into northwest Namibia and southwest Angola.
Four subspecies recognised:
L. c. chalybaeus - photo by
@LaughingDove
L. c. cyaniventris - photo by
@Maguari
L. c. sycobius
L. c. nordmanni - photo by
@Kudu21
Emerald Starling (Lamprotornis iris)
The range of this species extends patchily through West Africa from southern Guinea to central Ivory Coast.
Monotypic.
Photo by
@gentle lemur
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but if Erythrogaster can implicitly refuse to follow the taxonomy used in the thread whilst correcting me, I can be overly-literal when replying.
so you need not refrain from giving feedback; I was merely a little irked to find this morning that you'd chosen to reply to my reason for retaining the hybrid shot by ignoring it and repeating yourself. Or to summarize, that the conversation went like this;