Animal India - Sturnia Malabarica

Animal India - Sturnia Malabarica

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. It is a Pale-headed starling with dark-tipped wings and an orangish belly and rump. Bill is distinctively colorful: blue with a yellow tip. This bird inhabits open forests and forest edges, as well as agricultural areas and village outskirts. Like other starlings, social and raucous, often flocking together while noisily churring and whistling. Frequently perches up on exposed perches such as snags and utility lines, but also forages extensively on the ground. It is Native to southern Asia; and introduced to Taiwan. A chestnut-tailed starling bird sits on an electric wire in a gust after the rain stops and its feathers are ruffled at Tehatta, West Bengal; India on 11/10/2023. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto)

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