| Chestnut-tailed starling | |
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| Chestnut-tailed starling in Satchari National Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Sturnia |
| Species: | S. malabarica
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| Binomial name | |
| Sturnia malabarica (Gmelin, 1789)
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| Synonyms | |
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Temenuchus malabaricus | |
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).
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Sturnia malabarica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22710858A94263973. Retrieved 23 May 2021.