Slender-billed Starling

Onychognathus tenuirostris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestCavity nestMedium · 118 g

When to see the Slender-billed Starling

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

Where to see the Slender-billed Starling

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 8 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 Zambia, Eritrea.

About the Slender-billed Starling

The slender-billed starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

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Easily confused with

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