Species profile
Abbott's Starling
Poeoptera femoralis
Quick answer
Mt. Kenya south to Mt. Meru and Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Scientific name
- Poeoptera femoralis
- Family
- Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Poeoptera
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Related species in Sturnidae
- African Pied Starling (Lamprotornis bicolor)
- Amydrus montanus (Amydrus montanus)
- Aplonis marginata (Aplonis marginata)
- Ashy Starling (Lamprotornis unicolor)
- Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
- Atoll Starling (Aplonis feadensis)
- Babbling Starling (Neocichla gutturalis)
- Bali Myna (Leucopsar rothschildi)