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Purple-headed Starling

Hylopsar purpureiceps

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestCavity nestMedium · 63 g
Purple-headed Starling (Hylopsar purpureiceps), photo 1
Photo: William Rutledge(1732-1786)[1], Vincent Brooks, Day & Son · Public domain
Purple-headed Starling (Hylopsar purpureiceps), photo 2
Photo: William Rutledge (1732-1786), Vincent Brooks, Day & Son · Public domain

When to see the Purple-headed Starling

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Purple-headed Starling

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Uganda Equatorial Guinea Congo - Kinshasa Gabon Cameroon Congo - Brazzaville Nigeria Central African Republic Benin

About the Purple-headed Starling

The purple-headed starling, also known as the purple-headed glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Copper-tailed Starling (Hylopsar cupreocauda) Copper-tailed StarlingHylopsar cupreocaudaThe copper-tailed starling or copper-tailed glossy-starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

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