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Chestnut-tailed Starling
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ashy-headed starling, Sturnus malabaricus, Sturnia malabarica
species of bird
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- Sturnia malabarica
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- Sturnia malabarica
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- Sturnia malabarica
- taxon common name
- কাঠ শালিক
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- short name
- S. malabarica
- taxon range
- Nanling Mountains
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Encyclopedic overview
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).
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chestnut-tailed Starling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.