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The lesser blue-eared glossy starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) lives in savanna woodland habitat throughout West and Southern Africa, as well as parts of East Africa.  It is a cooperative breeder that, despite its name, is not as closely related to the greater blue-eared glossy starling as people have long suspected. Credit: Dustin Rubenstein/University of California, Berkeley

The lesser blue-eared glossy starling (Lamprotornis chloropterus) lives in savanna woodland habitat throughout West and Southern Africa, as well as parts of East Africa. It is a cooperative breeder that, despite its name, is not as closely related to the greater blue-eared glossy starling as people have long suspected. Credit: Dustin Rubenstein/University of California, Berkeley

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