---
title: "Błyszczak ciemny"
description: "Lamprotornis mevesii — Ptaki. Meves's starling (Lamprotornis mevesii), also Meves's glossy starling and Long-tailed starling, is a species of starling in the genus Lamprotornis."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/meves-s-starling
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Błyszczak ciemny

> Lamprotornis mevesii — Ptaki. Meves's starling (Lamprotornis mevesii), also Meves's glossy starling and Long-tailed starling, is a species of starling in the genus Lamprotornis.

- Scientific name: *Lamprotornis mevesii*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1281
- Wikidata: [Q908219](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908219)
- iNaturalist taxon: [14941](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/14941)

## Names

- en: Meves's Starling
- de: Mevesglanzstar
- es: Estornino de Meves
- fr: Choucador de Meves
- nl: Meve's langstaartglansspreeuw
- pt: Estorninho-rabilongo
- pl: Błyszczak ciemny

## Countries with the most observations

BW (283), ZA (273), ZW (214), ZM (177), NA (156), MW (65), AO (13), MZ (7)

## Summary

Meves's starling (Lamprotornis mevesii), also Meves's glossy starling and Long-tailed starling, is a species of starling in the genus Lamprotornis. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Its English and Latin names commemorate the German ornithologist Friedrich Wilhelm Meves.
It is 30–36 cm long, with a very long tail; in dull light coloured black, but in bright light, with moderate to intensely strong iridescent gloss. It can be distinguished from the similar Burchell's starling by its longer tail with strongly graduated feathers (the central pair of tail…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meves%27s_starling

## Photo

![Błyszczak ciemny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/meves-s-starling/medium.jpg)

Photo: johanj56 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/328189282

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/meves-s-starling?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).