Lesser Blue-eared Starling

When to see the Lesser Blue-eared Starling

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lesser Blue-eared Starling

The map shades 27 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Niger, Sierra Leone, United Kingdom.

About the Lesser Blue-eared Starling

The lesser blue-eared starling or lesser blue-eared glossy-starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Easily confused with

Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcherThis is one of the rufous-bellied starlings, and the only one in most of its range. Ashy StarlingLamprotornis unicolorThe ashy starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Fischer's StarlingLamprotornis fischeriThe adult of this 18 cm (7.1 in) long, 51 g (1.8 oz) starling has mainly dully ash-grey plumage except for a white lower chest, belly and undertail.