Coleto

When to see the Coleto

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

Where to see the Coleto

The map shades 1 country 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 Singapore.

About the Coleto

The coleto is a starling species in the monotypic genus Sarcops. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forest, tropical moist lowland forest, and tropical moist montane forest. In Filipino and Tagalog, this bird is known as kuling or koleto, while in Central Visayas, it is commonly known as the sal-ing.

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Easily confused with

Daurian StarlingAgropsar sturninusThe Daurian starling is distinguished from other starling species by its dark mantle and crown and narrow wing bars. Chestnut-bellied StarlingLamprotornis pulcherThis is one of the rufous-bellied starlings, and the only one in most of its range. Chestnut-cheeked StarlingAgropsar philippensisThe chestnut-cheeked starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.