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 28 species which occur in Kenya.
- Wattled Starling Creatophora cinerea
- Greater Blue-eared Glossy Starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus
- Lesser Blue-eared Glossy Starling Lamprotornis chloropterus
- Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling Lamprotornis chalcurus
- Splendid Glossy Starling Lamprotornis splendidus
- Purple Glossy Starling Lamprotornis purpureus
- Rueppell's Glossy Starling Lamprotornis purpuropterus
- Golden-breasted Starling Lamprotornis regius
- Black-bellied Glossy Starling Lamprotornis corruscus
- Superb Starling Lamprotornis superbus
- Hildebrandt's Starling Lamprotornis hildebrandti
- Shelley's Starling Lamprotornis shelleyi
- Purple-headed Glossy-Starling Lamprotornis purpureiceps
- Violet-backed Starling Cinnyricinclus leucogaster
- Fischer's Starling Spreo fischeri
- Ashy Starling Spreo unicolor
- White-crowned Starling Spreo albicapillus
- Red-winged Starling Onychognathus morio
- Slender-billed Starling Onychognathus tenuirostris
- Waller's Starling Onychognathus walleri
- Bristle-crowned Starling Onychognathus salvadorii
- Stuhlmann's Starling Poeoptera stuhlmanni
- Kenrick's Starling Poeoptera kenricki
- Sharpe's Starling Pholia sharpii
- Abbott's Starling Pholia femoralis
- Magpie Starling Speculipastor bicolor
- Red-billed Oxpecker Buphagus erythrorhynchus
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker Buphagus africanus
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Kenya