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Synonyms for collared_starling or Related words with collared_starling
throated_canary_crithagra
throated_tit
backed_vulture_gyps
fronted_nunbird
savile_bustard
nettapus_auritus_african
redstart_phoenicurus_ochruros
throated_munia
crowned_hornbill
redstart_phoenicurus_ochruros_common
atrogularis
coucal_centropus_grillii
baza_aviceda_leuphotes
throated_honeyeater
bellied_bustard_lissotis_melanogaster
lophotis
thighed
necked_aracari
bellied_antbird
fronted_bee_eater
fronted_piping_guan
africanus_rüppell_vulture_gyps
ruficrista
hooded_oriole_oriolus_xanthornus
white_winged_redstart
fulvifrons
bellied_bustard_eupodotis_senegalensis
casqued_hornbill_ceratogymna_atrata
bellied_cuckoo
browed_reed_warbler
ardesiaca
wheatear_oenanthe_leucura
tailed_treecreeper
saxicola_rubetra_european
crowned_pigeon_patagioenas
winged_dove_zenaida
necked_stork_ciconia_episcopus
headed_ibis_threskiornis
guifsobalito
buff_spotted_flufftail
throated_robin_irania
bibbed
plumed_honeyeater
urochroa
headed_bunting_emberiza
crested_turaco
bellied_sunbird
crowned_crane_balearica
melanozanthos
tailed_eagle_haliaeetus
Examples of "collared_starling"
In Thailand the
collared
starling
is sometimes kept in captivity and taught to speak.
The white-
collared
starling
has been reported to have both a "chirruping" and a call of three short whistled notes.
The white-
collared
starling
("Grafisia torquata") is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is monotypic within the genus Grafisia. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Gabon.
The black-
collared
starling
("Gracupica nigricollis") is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
The other two would better be dealt with by resurrecting "Agropsar", either as distinct genus or as subgenus of "Gracupica" which otherwise includes the black-
collared
starling
(""Sturnus" nigricollis") and pied myna (""Sturnus" contra"); these four form a robust and ancient group of two sister species that is perhaps even closer to the wattled starling ("Creatophpora cinerea") than to the actual "Sturnus". Their similarity to "Sturnia" proper is probably simply a symplesiomorphy.
Over 30 species of birds have been recorded in the park since its creation. Birds most often seen or heard there include Chinese pond-heron, little egret, rock pigeon, spotted dove, zebra dove, plaintive cuckoo, common koel, coppersmith barbet, Asian palm-swift, barn swallow, streak-eared bulbul, black-naped oriole, large-billed crow, inornate warbler, common tailorbird, Oriental magpie-robin, pied fantail, black-
collared
starling
, common myna, white-vented myna, olive-backed sunbird, scarlet-backed flowerpecker, Eurasian tree sparrow. Species which are seen there less often include house swift, common iora, Asian pied starling, yellow-vented bulbul, brown shrike.
The species was first identified by Anton Reichenow and named "Spreo torquatus", from the Latin for "torquated", referring to the coloration around the neck of the male. It was later identified independently by James Chapin in 1913 in the Belgian Congo as "Stilbopsar leucothorax", from the Greek λευκός (meaning "white") and θώραξ (meaning "chest"), again referring to its white collar. They were placed into its current genus "Grafisia" by George Latimer Bates in 1926, based on substantial differences between the white-
collared
starling
and members of either "Spreo" or "Stilbopsar".