ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the birds comes under the family Sturnidae: Starlings, Oxpeckers Stuhlmann's starling, Black-breasted glossy starling, Blue-eared glossy starling, Lesser blue-eared glossy starling , Ruppell's long-tailed glossy starling, Splendid glossy starling and Bristle-crowned starling. The family also include: Red-winged starling, Slender-billed chestnut-winged starling, Waller's chestnut-winged starling, Shelley's starling, Hildebrandt's starling, Superb starling, Fischer's starling and others. Stuhlmann's forms part of a superspecies with the allopatric Kenrick's Starling (HM), which favours similar habitats but is restricted to areas E of the rift valley (Br). The Bristle-crowned Starling is placed in a species-group with the rest of its genus (HM). There are three congeners in Kenya. The Slender-billed Chestnut-winged Starling is segregated from the Bristle-crowned at greater altitudes in the highlands, while Waller's Chestnutwinged Starling is largely confined to the canopy of highland forest. The Bristle-crowned Starling occurs in towns in Somalia (AM), but the only similar record from Kenya is at Marsabit 27D 28C, where the Redwinged Starling is absent.
