| Spot-winged starling | |
|---|---|
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| Male (bottom), female (top).Northern Thailand. | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Saroglossa Hodgson, 1844 |
| Species: | S. spilopterus |
| Binomial name | |
| Saroglossa spilopterus (Vigors, 1831) | |
| Synonyms | |
Saroglossa spiloptera | |
Thespot-winged starling (Saroglossa spilopterus) is a species ofstarling in the familySturnidae. It breeds in northernIndia and westernNepal; it winters inNortheast India, north-easternBangladesh andMyanmar. Its naturalhabitats aresubtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moistmontane 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 ofForeign Birds, the journal of the Foreign Bird League.
It eats insects and fruit.[2] It also feeds on nectar fromErythrina,Bombax, andGrevillea trees.[3]
