Spot-winged starling

The spot-winged starling (Saroglossa spilopterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It breeds in northern India and western Nepal; it winters in Northeast India, north-eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane 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 of Foreign Birds, the journal of the Foreign Bird League.

Spot-winged starling
Male (bottom), female (top). Northern Thailand.
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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

It eats insects and fruit.^[2] It also feeds on nectar from Erythrina, Bombax, and Grevillea trees.^[3]

Male on a coral tree (Erythrina sp.)