Red-winged Starling (Onychognathus morio)
About the Red-winged Starling
The red-winged starling (Onychognathus morio) is a bird of the starling family Sturnidae native to eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. An omnivorous, generalist species, it prefers cliffs and mountainous areas for nesting, and has moved into cities and towns due to similarity to its original habitat.
A real field recording of the Red-winged Starling. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 84 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
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- Neumann's StarlingOnychognathus neumanniprofile
- Pale-winged StarlingOnychognathus nabouroupprofile
- Slender-billed StarlingOnychognathus tenuirostrisprofile
- Tristram's StarlingOnychognathus tristramiiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.