Black-bellied Starling

When to see the Black-bellied Starling

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-bellied Starling

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Zimbabwe.

About the Black-bellied Starling

The black-bellied starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae, originally described by zoologist Alexander von Nordmann in 1835. It is found in Eswatini, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

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Easily confused with

Common Hill MynaGracula religiosaThis is a stocky jet-black myna, with bright orange-yellow patches of naked skin and fleshy wattles on the side of its head and nape. Rüppell's StarlingLamprotornis purpuropteraRüppell's starling, also known as Rueppell's glossy-starling or Rueppell's long-tailed starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Metallic StarlingAplonis metallicaThe adult has brilliant red eyes, a long forked tail and green-glossed black plumage.