Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
(aka Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling)
Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling, Tono Dam, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image

Tono Dam, Ghana
June 2011

The Bronze-tailed Starling is distributed in Africa in a band south of the Sahara from Senegal to western Kenya. It is found in wooded savanna where it forages on the ground for fruits and insects.

Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling, Tono Dam, Ghana, June 2011 - click for larger image It is similar in looks to the Greater Blue-eared Starling L. chalybaeus but has a shorter tail which is mainly purple in colour and can look bronzy from certain angles as in photo 2.
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