Stats

Lifespan: 10-16 yrs
Size: Medium
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Flock
Biome: Tropical rainforest
Range: Southeast Asia
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Group defense
Status: Uncommon

About

A glossy, all-black starling with piercing red-orange eyes, common across South and Southeast Asian lowlands. It readily nests in urban structures and roosts in noisy communal flocks that can number in the thousands.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4.
adult
Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Aplonis
Species: Aplonis panayensis