Lamprotornis acuticaudus
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The sharp-tailed starling (Lamprotornis acuticaudus), also known as the sharp-tailed glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It inhabits open woodland (namely miombo) in Angola, northern Botswana, the southern DRC, northern Namibia, western Tanzania, and Zambia.
Sharp-tailed starling - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kafue National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling sighting in Kafue National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 329th most-seen of the 338 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling in Kafue National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to June, the lowest months. That is one of Kafue National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 290 mm in January.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kafue National Park, in our data
Kafue National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Lamprotornis
The closest relatives of the Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling that you can see in Kafue National Park (genus Lamprotornis, Glossy Starlings and Allies) are Greater Blue-eared Starling (about 30%), Meves's Glossy-starling (about 10%) and Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-starling (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling is recorded against all the birds logged in Kafue National Park (5 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
