sturnidae

Nonetheless, their inclusion in the Sturnidae is not entirely final and eventually they may remain a separate family.

Spreo is a genus of starling in the family Sturnidae.

Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae.

The name "Sturnidae" comes from the Latin word for starling, sturnus.

Formerly usually included in Sturnidae.

The latter are apparently the Sturnidae's closest living relatives, replace them in the Americas, and have a rather similar but more solitary lifestyle.

Usually rather robust for their size, most are quite dark and dull though Sturnidae are commonly iridescent and/or colorful.

Sturnidae: starlings and possibly Philippine creepers.

This lineage forms part of a radiation that includes Sturnidae and Mimidae, but appears to be the most ancient of these groups.

Acridotheres is a genus of starlings, the "typical" mynas, which are tropical members of the family Sturnidae.

More recently, Zuccon et al. 2006 place them in a basal clade inside the starlings in the family Sturnidae.

Of these families, Sturnidae and Zosteropidae and possibly Columbidae contain species which often move in flocks.

L. sturni - starlings (Sturnidae species)

The bare-eyed myna (Streptocitta albertinae) is a large, long-tailed species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

The Samoan starling (Aplonis atrifusca) is a large starling of the family Sturnidae.

Actually, mynahs (including the hill mynahs commonly for sale in pet shops) are close relatives and are members of the starling family, Sturnidae.

Placement of latter in Muscicapoidea seems good, but inclusion in Sturnidae requires confirmation; possibly distinct family Rhabdornithidae.

Starling was named after the starling, which is any passerine bird of the genus Sturnus or of the family, Sturnidae.

The spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.

The all-inclusive Sturnidae grouping is all but noninformative as regards biogeography, and obscures the evolutionary distinctness of the three lineages.

They are sometimes united with the starlings in the Sturnidae as a tribe Mimini as proposed by Sibley & Monroe (1990).

The splendid starling (Lamprotornis splendidus), also known as the splendid glossy-starling, is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

Turdidae are unknown from the Society Islands, while the Huahine starling (Aplonis diluvialis) proves the former existence of Sturnidae.

The Huahine starling (Aplonis diluvialis) is an extinct bird from the genus Aplonis within the starling family, Sturnidae.

This makes the expanded Sturnidae a rather noninformative group and is probably due to the methodological drawbacks of their DNA-DNA hybridization technique.