Atoll starling
| Atoll starling | |
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| Illustration by William Matthew Hart | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Aplonis |
| Species: | A. feadensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aplonis feadensis (Ramsay, 1882)
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The atoll starling (Aplonis feadensis) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in northern Melanesia: Green Islands, Nuguria, Ninigo, Hermit Islands and Ontong Java Atoll. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The species apparently nests in holes in trees.[2] It is threatened by habitat loss.
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Aplonis feadensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Bishop, K. David; Muller Hacking, Sue (2020). "Avifauna of the Ninigo, Hermit, Sae and Kaniet Islands, and adjacent seas, Papua New Guinea". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 140 (4): 404-422. doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i4.2020.a5.
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- IUCN Red List near threatened species
- Aplonis
- Birds of Papua New Guinea
- Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago
- Birds of the Solomon Islands
- Birds described in 1882
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