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 LC    Purple-backed Starling* Id (Atlas):
    Agropsar sturninus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Purple-backed Starling, Chestnut-cheeked Starling, Daurian Starling, Daurian Myna

Family
Sturnidae (Starlings)

Size
19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Pallas, 1776)

Derivation
Stur’-nus - L., starling: phillippensis - N.L., of the Phillippines

Habitat
Coastal areas, forest edges and clearings, regrowth and gardens. Usually in small flocks, but occasionally in groups of several hundred.

Range (Guide)
Cambodia, China (mainland), Hong Kong (China), India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia (B), Myanmar, North Korea (B), Pakistan, Russia (Asian), Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan (China), Thailand, Vietnam.

Vagrant to Christmas Island, Norway.

Breeds eastern Mongolia, south-eastern Russia (south-eastern Transbaikalia east to Ussuriland), north-eastern and central China (north-eastern Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang south to southern Gansu and Shandong) and northern Korea. Non-breeding south-eastern Asia and Greater Sundas.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Harsh squawks and whistles.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Daurian Starling (Agropsar sturninus) [XC267605]
     by Okamoto Keita Sin from Sibirtsevo, Chernigovskiy rayon, Primorskiy kray, Russian Federation (call, song)

 
Daurian Starling (Agropsar sturninus) [XC627427]
     by Ding Li Yong from BirdLife International (Asia) Office, Singapore (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

May form a superspecies with Chestnut-cheeked Starling (Agropsar philippensis).


References
See References.

The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9


Files:
JPG files for Purple-backed Starling (Agropsar sturninus) - 10 files


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