#0824 · 🐦 birds

Rosy Starling

🇳🇱 Rose Spreeuw ·Pastor roseus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Бобаченко Елена · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Sergey Yeliseev · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andrew Bazdyrev · CC BY 4.0
6. © ARSENIO GONZALEZ NAVARRO · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Кумторкалинский р-н, Респ. Дагестан, Россия:© Pavel Shukov · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. City of St. Petersburg, Sankt-Peterburg gorsovet, RU:© savaforto · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 4104 Oberwil, Schweiz:© michel_kilcher · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Δραμα, Ανατολικής Μακεδονίας και Θράκης, GR:© Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The rosy starling ( Pastor roseus ) is a passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae, also known as the rose-coloured starling or rose-coloured pastor . The species was recently placed in its own monotypic genus, Pastor , and split from Sturnus . This split is supported by recent studies, though other related species within its new genus are not yet known for certain.

base stats

NL sightings 17iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,716iNaturalist observations
weight 79.6 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).