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Babbling Starling
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Babbling Starling
Neocichla gutturalis
The babbling starling (Neocichla gutturalis) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is monotypic within the genus Neocichla. It is found in the African countries of Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. The babbling starling is a small starling that consists of yellow, dark brown, grey, and black coloring. There are two subspecies that include the Babbling starling western and the Babbling starling eastern. They are not globally threatened but are poorly known. Their diet can consist of termites, berries, and flowers that are usually on the ground. Their generation length in years is 4.16.
From the article Babbling starling on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The babbling starling have a general habitat of savannah around open miombo woodland. Their nests consists of moss, grass, or lichen placed up to 8 meters above the ground, where 2-3 eggs will appear. They can be seen traveling in flocks of 40 birds or more. When they are not breeding, they tend to forge flocks and mix with other birds and have an upper elevation limit of 1,500 meters. The breeding time is August through September and October in Angola, and October through November in Zambia and November in Malawi.
Wikipedia: “Habitat and Migration”
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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 15024.