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Spotless Starling
Sturnus unicolor · Family Sturnidae
Sturnus unicolor
Family Sturnidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Sturnidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,088,792
- Countries and territories with records
- 56
About this species
This species has 1,088,792 occurrence records from 56 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (70.5%), Portugal (26.4%) and Morocco (1.6%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sturnus unicolor combines the genus name Sturnus with the species epithet unicolor. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Sturnus: Sturnus vulgaris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 3.2 times the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.