Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Black-collared Starling
Gracupica nigricollis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A piebald giant of the open country, stalking buffalo and tractors alike for stirred-up insects. Its harsh whistle is a fixture of Southeast Asian rice fields.
- Population
- common and expanding across mainland Southeast Asia; established in Taiwan
- Habitat
- open country, rice paddies, farmland, parks and city edges across southern China, Taiwan and mainland Southeast Asia
- Diet
- fruit, insects, earthworms, scraps and human food waste
- Size
- 0.28 m
- Wingspan
- 0.45 m
