Vinous-breasted Starling

Vinous-breasted Starling
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Sturnus
Species: S. burmannicus
Binomial name
Sturnus burmannicus
(Jerdon, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Poliopsar cambodianus
  • Acridotheres burmannicus

The Vinous-breasted Starling (Sturnus burmannicus) is a species of starling in the Sturnidae family. It is sometimes placed in the myna genus Acridotheres.

Distribution and habitat

It is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam. In the early 2000s it has become an invasive species in Israel, alongside the Common Myna that invaded a few years earlier. Both populations seem to have started from individuals that escaped a bird park in Tel-Aviv.

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