Spot-winged Starling

When to see the Spot-winged Starling

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Spot-winged Starling

The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Spot-winged Starling

The spot-winged starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It breeds in northern India and western Nepal; it winters in Northeast India, north-eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. This species was first bred in the UK by Mrs K.M. Scamell in 1969. A detailed account of the breeding can be found in the January/February 1970 edition of Foreign Birds, the journal of the Foreign Bird League.

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Easily confused with

Slender-billed StarlingOnychognathus tenuirostrisThe slender-billed starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Chestnut-winged StarlingOnychognathus fulgidusThe chestnut-winged starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Bronze-tailed StarlingLamprotornis chalcurusThe bronze-tailed starling or bronze-tailed glossy-starling is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.