Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC519823]
by Simon Elliott from Ebb & Flo area, Wilderness National Park, South Cape DC, Western Cape, South Africa (call)
Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC408757]
by Frank Lambert from South Ridge, Berea, Durban Metro, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (song)
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.