Long-tailed Glossy Starling

When to see the Long-tailed Glossy Starling

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Long-tailed Glossy Starling

The map shades 20 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 Spain, United States, Taiwan.

About the Long-tailed Glossy Starling

The long-tailed glossy starling is a member of the starling family of birds. It is a resident breeder in tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan.

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Easily confused with

Splendid StarlingLamprotornis splendidusThe splendid starling, also known as the splendid glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Hildebrandt's StarlingLamprotornis hildebrandtiHildebrandt's starling is 18 cm (7.1 in) in length and weighs 50 to 69 g (1.8–2.4 oz). Purple StarlingLamprotornis purpureusThe adults of these stocky 22–23 cm long birds have a metallic purple head and body, and glossy green wings.