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{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Slender-billed starling
| image = Onychognathus tenuirostris mtkenya pair 1.jpg
| image_caption = Female (left) and male (right)
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Onychognathus tenuirostris'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22710629A94254695 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710629A94254695.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Onychognathus
| species = tenuirostris
| authority = ([[Eduard Rüppell|Rüppell]], 1836)
| synonyms = {{specieslist
|Lamprotornis tenuirostris|Rüppell, 1836<ref name="Ruppell, 1836" />}}
| subdivision_ranks=Subspecies
| subdivision={{specieslist
|O. t. tenuirostris| (Rüppell, 1836)
|O. t. theresae | Meinertzhagen, 1937<ref name="Meinertzhagen, 1937" />}}
 }}

The '''slender-billed starling''' ('''''Onychognathus tenuirostris''''') is a species of [[starling]] in the family [[Sturnidae]]. It is found in [[Burundi]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Eritrea]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Kenya]], [[Malawi]], [[Rwanda]], [[Tanzania]], [[Uganda]], and [[Zambia]].<ref name="iucn status 17 November 2021" />

==References==
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<ref name="Ruppell, 1836">{{cite book|last1=Rüppell|first1=Eduard|title=Vögl|date=1836|orig-year="1835"|publisher=Siegmund Schmerber|location=Frankfurt am Main|page=26|chapter-url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140114|chapter=''Lamprotornis tenuirostris''. Rüppell|series=Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig}}</ref>

<ref name="Meinertzhagen, 1937">{{cite journal|last1=Meinertzhagen|first1=R.|title=Descriptions of Six New Races from Kenya Colony|journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club|date=1937|volume=57|issue=399|page=68|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40497949}}</ref>
}}

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[[Category:Onychognathus|slender-billed starling]]
[[Category:Birds of East Africa]]
[[Category:Birds described in 1836|slender-billed starling]]
[[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]


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