Chestnut-cheeked Starling

Agropsar philippensis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreWoodlandCavity nestSmall · 29 g

When to see the Chestnut-cheeked Starling

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-cheeked Starling

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 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 India, Cambodia.

About the Chestnut-cheeked Starling

The chestnut-cheeked starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It breeds in Japan and the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuriles; it winters in Taiwan, the Philippines and northern Borneo.

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Easily confused with

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