Sharpe's starling

Sharpe's starling (Pholia sharpii) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.^[1] It is monotypic in the genus Pholia.

Sharpe's starling
Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sturnidae
Genus:	Pholia Reichenow, 1900
Species:	P. sharpii
Binomial name
Pholia sharpii (Jackson, 1898)
Synonyms
Poeoptera sharpii Cinnyricinclus sharpii

The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.^[2]