Slender-billed starling

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Slender-billed starling

| image = Onychognathus tenuirostris mtkenya pair 1.jpg

| image_caption = Female (left) and male (right)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Onychognathus tenuirostris |volume=2016 |page=e.T22710629A94254695 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710629A94254695.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| genus = Onychognathus

| species = tenuirostris

| authority = (Rüppell, 1836)

| synonyms = {{specieslist

|Lamprotornis tenuirostris|Rüppell, 1836}}

| subdivision_ranks=Subspecies

| subdivision={{specieslist

|O. t. tenuirostris| (Rüppell, 1836)

|O. t. theresae | Meinertzhagen, 1937}}

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The slender-billed starling (Onychognathus tenuirostris) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

References

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{{cite book|last1=Rüppell|first1=Eduard|title=Vögl|date=1836|orig-year="1835"|publisher=Siegmund Schmerber|location=Frankfurt am Main|page=26|chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140114|chapter=Lamprotornis tenuirostris. Rüppell|series=Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig}}

{{cite journal|last1=Meinertzhagen|first1=R.|title=Descriptions of Six New Races from Kenya Colony|journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|date=1937|volume=57|issue=399|page=68|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40497949}}

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slender-billed starling

Category:Birds of East Africa

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