Cape starling | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Species of bird

The Cape starling (Lamprotornis nitens), also known as red-shouldered glossy-starling or Cape glossy starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Southern Africa, where it lives in woodlands, bushveld and in suburbs.[4]

Two subspecies are recognised,[2] but not by all authors.[5]L. n. culminator is said to be larger, with greener wing and tail plumage. Its secondary remiges are also glossy on both vanes, i.e. not matt black on the inner vanes as in L. n. phoenicopterus.[2]

In 1760, the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Cape starling in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Angola. He used the French name Le merle verd dAngola and the Latin Merula Viridis Angolensis.[6] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognis...