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Mountain Starling
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Mountain Starling
Aplonis santovestris
The mountain starling, Vanuatu starling, Santo mountain starling or Santo starling (Aplonis santovestris) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is endemic to the island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. It is restricted to cloud forest on that island. The species was seldom seen in the 20th century and was at one point feared extinct, although a 1991 expedition managed to find a population high in the mountains.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 14962.