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Chestnut-tailed Starling
Sturnia malabarica · Family Sturnidae
Sturnia malabarica
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 167,350
- Countries and territories with records
- 26
About this species
This species has 167,350 occurrence records from 26 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (68.3%), Taiwan (12.9%), Bangladesh (5.3%), Thailand (4.9%) and Nepal (4.4%); together they account for 95.8% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.19% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sturnia malabarica combines the genus name Sturnia with the species epithet malabarica. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Sturnia; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sturnia pagodarum, Sturnia blythii and Sturnia sinensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 12th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 49.1% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.