Ashy Starling
Cosmopsarus unicolor
Cosmopsarus unicolor
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Ashy Starling Cosmopsarus unicolor |
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The ashy starling is a common central Tanzanian endemic, found in open and wooded grassland in association with baobab trees. Three images of partial albinoes are included with the photos. The nest in slideshow image #1 was a hole in a Commiphora mollis tree about 1.5 m off the ground on the main trunk. The actual nest was inside 20 cm below the hole. Nesting material consisted of fine roots and a shed cobra skin. The local Hadza said that the starling eggs are always light green but that sometimes there is also a white one as in above photo: a greater honeyguide egg? |
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