Red-winged Starling
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Red-winged Starling

Onychognathus morio

Overview

Table Mountain, Kruger and Addo Elephant National Park are among the 23 atlas places where the Red-winged Starling is recorded. Its records concentrate in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia and Kenya. The atlas holds about 177,000 records of Onychognathus morio across eight countries, and the map shows where these records concentrate.

This bird is recorded year-round, with observations spanning every month of the year.

Records
176,855
Countries
8
Atlas places
23
Months with records
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Each bar is the share of its 200 month-dated grid cells with records in that month.

Recorded in and around these atlas places

These are open occurrence records, so they show where people looked for and recorded the Red-winged Starling as much as where it lives. The atlas keeps a species' 200 best-recorded grid cells, so the map shows where records concentrate rather than its whole range. Cells are up to 25 km across, and every location is generalised to its cell.

Where you'll find them

Generalised encounter areas, not exact locations. Each shape is a grid cell coloured by how likely the species is there.

  • South Africa
    25 km zone · high confidence · 163925 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zimbabwe
    25 km zone · high confidence · 4000 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Kenya
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2684 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Tanzania
    25 km zone · high confidence · 2452 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Lesotho
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1502 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Eswatini
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1166 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely
  • Zambia
    25 km zone · high confidence · 1126 records · updated 40 days ago
    Very likely

Conservation status not assessed here yet, so every location is generalised to its grid cell.

Photographs
1 of Red-winged Starling