Spot-winged starling

Saroglossa spiloptera The spot-winged starling (Saroglossa spilopterus) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

It breeds in northern India and western Nepal; it winters in Northeast India, north-eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

A detailed account of the breeding can be found in the January/February 1970 edition of Foreign Birds, the journal of the Foreign Bird League.

[2] It also feeds on nectar from Erythrina, Bombax, and Grevillea trees.

Male on a coral tree ( Erythrina sp.)