- Origin: East Africa
- Class: Birds
- Order: Passériformes
- Family: Sturnidés
The Splendid Starling, also known as the “superbe choucador”, occupies a wide variety of habitats, and can be found in all open wooded areas, from sea level to 3,000 metres above sea level, in both urban areas and remote countryside. It feeds on the ground, mainly on insects, but also on small fruits and seeds, and is both an insectivorous and a frugivorous. Males and females are identical. It is a gregarious bird that lives in small groups outside its breeding season.
The female lays 2 to 4 blue-green eggs, which are incubated for 12 to 14 days. Both parents look after the chicks, which are dependent on them for more than two weeks before they can fly away.
IUCN Status : least concern (Appendix III)