Scientific name: Lamprotornis mevesii
Occurs from Angola, Zambia and Malawi to southern Africa, where it is locally common in northern Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique, Zimbabwe and north-eastern South Africa.
It generally prefers open, seasonally flooded habitats with scattered trees such as Mopane , Baobab, Ana-tree , Fever-tree Acacia, Umbrella thorn and Leadwood.
The Meves's Starling is a bird about the same size as a starling. The male and female have the same plumage and colours. Head is blue, green. Eye is brown. Bill is black. Throat is blue, green. Back is blue. Legs are black.
It mainly eats insects supplemented with fruit and flowers, doing most of its foraging on the ground, often catching prey disturbed by large mammals such as African elephant.
