Common Starling / European Starling

Order - Passeriformes
Family - Sturnidae (Starlings)

Common Starling / European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

紫翅椋鸟 (zǐ-chì liáng-niǎo) / 欧洲椋鸟 (ōuzhōu liáng-niǎo)

    Malay : Perling Bintang

    Japanese : ホシムクドリ (hoshi muku-dori)

    Kanji 日語漢字 : 星椋鳥

    Size : 20–23 cm; 55–100 g

    

    Subspecies and Distribution

• Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
  – Iceland E to Ural Mts, S to N & NE Spain, S Italy, SE Europe and N Ukraine, also on Canary Is; non-breeding also S throughout Iberia and to N Africa.
• Sturnus vulgaris faroensis (Feilden, 1872)
  – Faroe Is.
• Sturnus vulgaris zetlandicus (E. J. O. Hartert, 1918)
  – Outer Hebrides and Shetland Is.
• Sturnus vulgaris granti (E. J. O. Hartert, 1903)
  – Azores.
• Sturnus vulgaris poltaratskyi (Finsch, 1878)
  – E Ural Mts E to L Baikal, S to N & E Kazakhstan, N Kyrgyz Steppes and through N Dzungaria to Mongolia. Non-breeding in SW Asia to NW India.
• Sturnus vulgaris tauricus (Buturlin, 1904)
  – S & E Ukraine and Crimea E to S Russia (Stavropol), and Asia Minor (except E); non-breeding also Middle East.
• Sturnus vulgaris caucasicus (T. K. Lorenz, 1887)
  – Volga Delta, N Caucasus and E Transcaucasia, Azerbaijan, S Caspian Sea region and W & S Iran.
• Sturnus vulgaris purpurascens (Gould, 1868)
  – W Transcaucasia, E Turkey, Georgia and Armenia; non-breeding also Egypt.
• Sturnus vulgaris oppenheimi (Neumann, 1915)
  – SE Turkey and N Iraq.
• Sturnus vulgaris porphyronotus (Sharpe, 1888)
  – E Kazakhstan and extreme NW China (W Xinjiang) S to E Uzbekistan and Tajikistan; non-breeding N Indian Subcontinent.
• Sturnus vulgaris nobilior (A. O. Hume, 1879)
  – NE Iran, S Turkmenistan and N Afghanistan; non-breeding NW Indian Subcontinent.
• Sturnus vulgaris humii (W. E. Brooks, 1876)
  – W Himalayas (Kashmir and Punjab); non-breeding N Indian Subcontinent.
• Sturnus vulgaris minor (A. O. Hume, 1873)
  – Pakistan (Indus Valley).

    Introduced and expanding populations elsewhere (North America, S Africa, Australia,
    New Zealand, Polynesia).

1st Peninsula Malaysia Record !!!

Date : 20 January 2019

Location : Pulau Indah (Pulau Lumut), Daerah Klang, Selangor

Date : 20 January 2019
Location : Pulau Indah (Pulau Lumut), Daerah Klang, Selangor