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Red-winged Starling
Onychognathus morio · Family Sturnidae
Onychognathus morio
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 264,461
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 264,461 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (88.6%), Kenya (3.4%), Zimbabwe (3%) and Tanzania (2.1%); together they account for 97.2% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.59% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Onychognathus morio combines the genus name Onychognathus with the species epithet morio. The Warbla app catalog lists 11 species of the genus Onychognathus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Onychognathus tristramii, Onychognathus nabouroup and Onychognathus walleri.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 77.6% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.