Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC697908]
by isaac kilusu from Assegaai Trails, Grahamstown, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)
Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio) [XC396246]
by Mick (Mike) Jackson from Iten, 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.