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 26 species which occur in Tanzania.
- 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
- Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius
- Sharp-tailed Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis acuticaudus
- Black-bellied Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis corruscus
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi (A)
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Fischer's Starling Spreo fischeri
- Ashy Starling Spreo unicolor
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- Kenrick's Starling Poeoptera kenricki
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Abbott's Starling Pholia femoralis
- Magpie Starling Speculipastor bicolor
- Babbling Starling Neocichla gutturalis
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Tanzania