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|image=Lamprotornis hildebrandti -Tanzania-8-2c.jpg
|size=250
|title=Hildebrandt's Starling
|texttitle=Hildebrandt's Starling
|caption=Hildebrandt's Starling is a species of starling named for Johannes Hildebrandt, a German collector who was the first European to obtain specimens. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania, where it occupies open woodland and open thornbrush country between {{convert|500|and|2200|m|ft|abbr=on}}. Male and female adults appear identical, both having bright iridescent blue plumage on the upper body and upper surfaces with an orange-buff to rufous breast and belly. The juveniles are quite different, with charcoal grey upperparts and chestnut brown lowerparts.
|credit=Photo: Noel Feans