Waller's starling
| Waller's starling | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Onychognathus |
| Species: | O. walleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Onychognathus walleri (Shelley, 1880)
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Waller's starling (Onychognathus walleri) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.
It is native to the Western High Plateau and Bioko, the Albertine Rift montane forests, the Imatong Mountains and highlands of equatorial east Africa.
The common name and scientific name commemorates the English naturalist Gerald Waller.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Onychognathus walleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22710595A94253081. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710595A94253081.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 358.
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