Polynesian Starling
Aplonis tabuensis
A small to medium-sized starling, dark above and pale below with long buffy or gray streaks. Note the distinctive pale or white wing panel. Usually has a pale eye, but eye is dark in eastern Fiji and south Tonga. Common in all habitats. Samoan Starling is much larger and more uniformly dark, lacking a pale wing panel. Rusty-winged Starling is paler above with a dark eye and no pale wing panel. Polynesian’s most common call is a high-pitched repetitive “twee-wee.”
分类信息
The Polynesian starling was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the shrikes in the genus Lanius and coined the binomial name Lanius tabuensis. The specific epithet is from the toponym Tongatapu, one of the main islands of Tonga. Gmelin based his account on the "Tabuan shrike" that had been described in 1781 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his book A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen from "Tongo Taboo" (Tongatapu) that was held by the Leverian Museum in London. The Polynesian starling is now placed in the genus Aplonis that was introduced in 1836 by John Gould.<p>Twelve subspecies are recognised:
- 学名
- Aplonis tabuensis
- 命名信息
- (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Sturnidae
- 属
- Aplonis
分布与栖息地
- 迁徙
- Resident species
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- unknown
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