Chestnut-tailed Starling

The chestnut-tailed or grey-headed starling is a starling about 20cm long with grey upperparts, blackish flight feathers, a light grey head streaked whitish, white eyes and a yellow bill with a pale blue base. The underparts are rufous in the nominate subspecies and whitish tinged rufous in the other. The sexes look alike, and juveniles have whitish underparts and only chestnut tips to the tail. The closely related white-headed Malabar starling was formerly included in this species (Wikipedia, general species account).

It lives in open woodland and cultivation and nests in an old barbet or woodpecker hole in a tree trunk 3–12m up, laying three to five unmarked pale blue eggs, usually between March and June. Like most starlings it is fairly omnivorous, eating fruit, nectar and insects, and flocks fly tightly, changing direction rapidly. It is resident or partly migratory (Wikipedia, general species account).