Rosy Starling
Pastor roseus
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Starlings
Call and song
Recording 1 · begging call, call
Recording 2
Recording 3
About the Rosy Starling
Adult is unique, a vision in glossy black and pale pink. Juvenile is brown with an orange bill. Breeds in colonies on steppes and winters in open and wooded habitats. Gathers in huge numbers to roost, often mixing with other species at roost sites. Flocking birds keep up a constant cacophony of dry chattering calls.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 100 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Armenia
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Cape Verde
- China
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Guernsey
- High Seas
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Macau
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territory
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Türkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Western Sahara
