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Rueppells Starling

Lamprotornis purpuroptera

Photo by CindyCor
Published on Project Noah
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Comments (8)
Mark Ridgway
Fabulous colours. I learned somewhere that the birds of paradise in Papua may have evolved from starlings. This one certainly supports the idea. Thanks.
CindyCor
Yes DanielePralong...It is a Rueppells Starling. I have corrected it. THANK-YOU !!!!
DanielePralong
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_Starling 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!
Ryan21
What beautiful colours it has!! Great find!!!
Atul
its indeed superb!!

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PublishedDecember 13, 2011

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