Starlings
Order: Passeriformes Family: Sturnidae
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds. Their flight is strong and direct, and they are very gregarious. Their preferred habitat is fairly open country. They eat insects and fruit. Plumage is typically dark with a metallic sheen. There are 125 species worldwide and 14 species which occur in Burundi.
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Lesser Blue-eared Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Splendid Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Rueppell's Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis purpuropterus
- Purple-headed Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis purpureiceps
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Burundi