Starlings, Rhabdornises

Micronesian Starling

Aplonis opaca

The Micronesian Starling (Aplonis opaca) is an 83 g forest bird that eats a bit of everything. It stays put all year.

Family

Starlings, Rhabdornises

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

83 g

Habitat

Forest

Diet

Omnivore

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

6

Recorded in Palau, MP, Micronesia, Guam, ZZ, Republic of Korea.

Where to see it: Watershed Forest Reserve (Federated States of Micronesia); Tanapag, Chalan Santa Remedios (Northern Mariana Islands); Cocos Island (Guam); WW II Memorials (Northern Mariana Islands); Airai, Ngeruluobel Summer House Debkar (Palau).

Photo: (c) Tigran Tadevosyan, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist