Lamprotornis hildebrandti
(L 7.5-8" Wt 1.8-2.4 oz)
Nairobi National Park
18Oct2014
Found in moderately moist
savanna and woodland...has a
number of calls and songs.
Mozart kept a starling for three years and
taught it to sing bars of his music.
(Noah Stryker)
Lamprotornis in Greek means
slendour bird; chalybaeus in
Latin means steely.
© Peter
Boesman
Macaulay
Library