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Onychognathus morio rueppelli |
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Onychognathus morio shelleyi |
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French name : |
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Etourneau à bec robuste (ou morio) |
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Red-winged Starling |
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Zoology |
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Description : |
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Bill is robust and tail is quite long. Flight feathers are red and eye is dark. |
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In Katanga, only known from the Marungu along the rocky banks in the South-West of the lake Tanganyika. |
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Sleep in rocky slopes but sometimes get used to human buldings. Gragrious birds moving in noisy flocks sometimes over long distances. |
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In Katanga, nidification takes place from September to January. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
We invite everyone who could help us to improve this working tool to contact us in order to correct us and share her/his knowledge with us.
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