Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Superb Starling
Lamprotornis superbus
- epik
- 50 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Iridescent blue-green above, rusty-orange below, with a white chest band like a tuxedo shirt.
- Populasi
- Not numerically quantified; widespread and abundant across an extremely large range (~3,030,000 km²), with an overall decreasing population trend and a ~1-19% population decline; tree cover loss was ~5.5% in its range over the past decade
- Habitat
- Savanna, thornbush and acacia scrub, open and lakeshore woodland, grassland, gardens, and cultivated/arable land; occurs from sea level up to about 2,650-3,000 m but generally avoids humid lowland forest
- Fakta menarik
- Superb Starlings are cooperative breeders living in close-knit family groups of up to a dozen or more birds, where both breeding parents and 1-14 non-breeding alloparents (relatives and sometimes unrelated helpers) feed and defend the dominant pair's chicks.
- Sebaran
- East Africa: resident in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda; an introduced/established population also occurs in the United Arab Emirates
- Makanan
- Omnivorous — mainly ground-caught insects (termites, grasshoppers, beetles, ants, mantids, moth larvae/caterpillars) supplemented with berries, small fruits, seeds, nectar, and occasional carrion/scavenging near human settlements
- Ukuran
- 0,18 m
- Masa hidup
- 5 tahun
