Chestnut-tailed Starling
Sturnia malabarica
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,239
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇳 India
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The chestnut-tailed starling (Sturnia malabarica), also called grey-headed starling and grey-headed myna is a member of the starling family. It is a resident or partially migratory species found in wooded habitats in India and Southeast Asia. The species name is after the distribution of a former subspecies in the Malabar region. While the chestnut-tailed starling is a winter visitor to peninsular India, the closely related resident breeding population with a white head is now treated as a full species, the Malabar starling (Sturnia blythii).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Chestnut-tailed starling”.