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| Genus: | Spreo Lesson, 1831
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Spreo is an alternative genus of starling in the family Sturnidae. They are now usually lumped in the genus Lamprotornis.[1] It contains the following species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Spreo albicapillus | White-crowned starling | Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. |
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Spreo fischeri | Fischer's starling | southern Ethiopia and Somalia to eastern Kenya and Tanzania |
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Spreo bicolor [2] | Pied starling | South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland |
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Spreo unicolor | Ashy starling | Kenya and Tanzania |
| Spreo pulcher[3] | Chestnut-bellied starling | Burkina Faso and western Africa |
- ^ Zuccon, Dario; Cibois, Alice; Pasquet, Eric; Ericson, Per G. P. (2006-11-01). "Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal the major lineages of starlings, mynas and related taxa". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 41 (2): 333–344. Bibcode:2006MolPE..41..333Z. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.007. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 16806992.
- ^ Sweijd, Neville; Craig, Adrian J. F. K. (1991). "Histological Basis of Age-Related Changes in Iris Color in the African Pied Starling (Spreo bicolor)". The Auk. 108 (1): 53–59. ISSN 0004-8038. JSTOR 4088047.
- ^ Wilkinson, R.; Brown, A. E. (1984). "Effect of Helpers on the Feeding Rates of Nestlings in the Chestnut-Bellied Starling Spreo pulcher". Journal of Animal Ecology. 53 (1): 301–310. Bibcode:1984JAnEc..53..301W. doi:10.2307/4358. ISSN 0021-8790. JSTOR 4358.