Common Name: White-faced Starling
Scientific Name: Sturnornis albofrontatus
Animal Family: Sturnidae
Description: The adults of these 22cm-long birds have green glossed dark grey upperparts and whitish underparts. The head is paler than the underparts. The sexes are similar, but juveniles are buller, with brown upperparts and greyer underparts. Smallish starling with pied plumage, feathers of crown, nape and upper mantle elongate and hackled. The normal cluth is two eggs.
Population: The population is estimated to number 2500-9999 mature individuals based on an assessment of recent records and surveys by BirdLife International.
Found where: This bird can be observed in the Sinharaja Rain Forest.
Habitat: This passerine is typically found in tall forest, usually high in the canopy. The white-faced starling builds its nest in the hole.
Foods: Its food consists largely of wild fruits, such as cinnamon berries and the figs of several species of Ficus, but it doubtless eats insects; and like many other birds, it is very found of the nectar of the red cotton tree.
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