| Fischer's starling | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Lamprotornis |
| Species: | L. fischeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Lamprotornis fischeri (Reichenow, 1884)
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| native range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Spreo fischeri | |
Fischer's starling (Lamprotornis fischeri) is a bird which is an uncommon resident breeder from southern Ethiopia and Somalia to eastern Kenya and Tanzania. It is found in dry open acacia thornbush.
The English and scientific names commemorate the German explorer Gustav Fischer.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Lamprotornis fischeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22710804A94261653. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710804A94261653.en.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Birds? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 127–128.