Chestnut tailed Starling 灰頭椋鳥 কাঠ শালিক

Chestnut tailed Starling 灰頭椋鳥কাঠ শালিক
灰头椋鸟（学名：Sturnus malabaricus）：中小型鸟类，体长17-20厘米。嘴橙黄色，脚淡棕色，上体灰色沾棕，头顶、枕、头侧珠灰色具白色羽轴纹。飞羽黑色，尾上覆羽灰棕色，中央尾羽银灰色，外侧尾羽基部黑色，端部栗色。下体近白色，喉、胸具白色羽干纹。 相似种灰背椋鸟外形和羽色与该种非常相似，但肩和翼覆羽白色，在翅上形成大型白斑，尾羽暗绿色而具白色端斑，嘴脚均呈蓝灰色。区别亦甚明显，野外不难识别。
主要栖息于海拔2000米以下的低山和山脚平原地带的开阔森林和林缘地带，尤以阔叶林和次生杂木林中较常见。常呈10多只至20多只的小群活动，以昆虫和植物果实与种子为食。
分布于中国、印度、锡金、孟加拉国、缅甸、泰国和中南半岛等地。

The chestnut-tailed starling (Sturnia malabarica), also called grey-headed starling and grey-headed myna is a member of the starling family. It is a resident or partially migratory species found in wooded habitats in India and Southeast Asia. The species name is after the distribution of a former subspecies in the Malabar region. While the chestnut-tailed starling is a winter visitor to peninsular India, the closely related resident breeding population with a white head is now treated as a full species, the Malabar starling (Sturnia blythii).
The adults have a total length of approximately 20 cm (7.9 in). They have grey upperparts and blackish remiges, but the colour of the remaining plumage depends on the subspecies. In the nominate subspecies and blythii, the underparts (incl. undertail) are rufous, but in nemoricola the underparts are whitish tinged rufous, especially on the flanks and crissum (the undertail coverts surrounding the cloaca). The nominate and nemoricola have a light grey head with whitish streaking (especially on crown and collar region). Both subspecies have white irises and a yellow bill with a pale blue base. The sexes are similar, but juveniles have whitish underparts and just chestnut tips to the tail feathers.
The chestnut-tailed starling's nest is typically found in open woodland and cultivation, and it builds a nest in an old barbet or woodpecker hole in a tree-trunk, 3–12 m (9.8–39.4 ft) up. The normal clutch is 3-5 eggs, pale blue, unmarked. The nesting season is usually March to June.
Like most starlings, it is fairly omnivorous, eating fruit, nectar and insects. They fly in tight flocks and often rapidly change directions with great synchrony.