Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio)

Other Names (World)
Red-winged Starling, Redwing Starling, African Red-winged Starling

Family
Sturnidae (Starlings)

Size
27 - 31 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Rocky ravines, cliffs, rural gardens.

Range (Guide)

Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Senegal.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A clear, whistled 'cherleeeeoo'. A variety of musical whistles. A harsh, grating alarm call.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (11)...)

Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC519822]
by Frank Lambert from Ebb & Flo area, Wilderness National Park, South Cape DC, Western Cape, South Africa (call)

Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC469078]
by Frank Lambert from Ngulia Lodge, Tsavo West NP, Kenya (call)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Tristram's Starling (Onychognathus tristramii). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Neumann's Starling (Onychognathus neumanni).

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

rueppellii (Verreaux, J, 1856) - Southern Sudan, northern Kenya and central Ethiopia; perhaps also north-eastern Uganda.
morio (Linnaeus, 1766) - Eastern Uganda, central Kenya, Tanzania, eastern DRCongo, eastern and southern Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, western Mozambique, eastern Botswana, and eastern and southern South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) - 10 files

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