The Superb Starling is native to East Africa. These birds are very beautifully marked with a stunning red-orange colored belly, a very glossy iridescent blue green upper breast, wings, tail and back. There is a fine white bar that separates the red-orange of the abdomen from the iridescent blue/green upper breast area. The coverts below the tail are white. The iris stand out with its cream color on the black of the head. Juveniles are similar to the adults in color except they are duller. The white line of the chest is almost absent. The iris is brown.
A captive diet for Superb Starlings is:
Choice of fruits: 14 grams halves of fig, dates, grapes or plums, slices of apple, orange, pears, bananas; or 1/3 can fruit cocktail or diced fruit, also blackberries, eugenia, elderberries, hawthorn and pyracantha and raisins which have been soaked overnight in water.
Minced meat: 5 grams
Choice of seeds: 5 grams
Inscects: 5 grams grasshoppers, crickets, mealworms or beetle pupae
Boiled rice: 5 grams
If you have a description or pictures of a Superb Starling please email it to
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