[1] Its natural habitat is tropical lowland, and sometimes subtropical montane, lightly wooded forest areas and wetlands.

[1] This species nests in colonies, which frequently contain hundreds of pairs.

Its nests are bored in rotting or dying tree trunks in woodpecker style.

[2] Grosbeak starlings are highly vocal, at their colonies and in feeding flocks.

[2] The grosbeak starling was first described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Lanius dubium.