Starlings (Sturnidae)
Short-tailed Starling (Aplonis minor) - HBW 14, p. 721
French: Stourne à queue courte
German: Sundastar
Spanish: Estornino Colicorto
Other common names: Lesser/Short-tailed Glossy Starling
Taxonomy: L[amprotornis] minor Bonaparte, 1850, Timor.
Genus name sometimes given as Aplornis (see page 659). Birds from Mindanao sometimes separated as race todayensis; further study required. Treated as monotypic.
Distribution: S Philippines (Mindanao), C & S Sulawesi (and islands of S coasts), islands in Flores Sea (Tanahjampea, Kayuadi, Kaleo, Kaleotoa), Java, Bali and Lesser Sundas (E to Roma and Moa).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird on a branch, preening Locality Teluk Terima, Bali (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Philip Griffin 9 September 2005 5 years ago 13 sec 3.1 -
on a bald tree Locality Mount Kitanglad, Bukidnon Province, Mindanao, Philippines (ssp todayensis)
Daniêl Jimenez 19 May 2009 2 years ago 14 sec 2.3 -
Distant view of a bird in a leafless tree. Locality Tanahjampea, Sulawesi (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 20 October 2011 26 weeks ago 22 sec 1.5
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A pair at feeding point
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Johannes Pfleiderer 17 April 2009 2 years ago 4 -
A bird perching on a branch.
Locality Bedugul, Bali (Indonesia) (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 21 April 2011 1 year ago 2.2
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some calls from birds in tree Locality Mount Kitanglad, Bukidnon Province, Mindanao, Philippines
Desmond Allen 4 August 1997 2 years ago 2
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