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White-cheeked Starling
Spodiopsar cineraceus · Family Sturnidae
Spodiopsar cineraceus
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 135,793
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 135,793 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Japan (55.3%), China (23.1%), Taiwan (9%), South Korea (8%) and Hong Kong (1.5%); together they account for 96.9% of the total. In Japan, this species accounts for 1.9% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Spodiopsar cineraceus combines the genus name Spodiopsar with the species epithet cineraceus. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Spodiopsar: Spodiopsar sericeus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 39.8% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.