Micronesian starling

Micronesian starling
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Sturnidae
Genus:	Aplonis
Species:	A. opaca
Binomial name
	Aplonis opaca; (Kittlitz, 1833)

The Micronesian starling (Aplonis opaca) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Palau. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

Micronesian starlings consume fruit, seeds, the occasional insect and the eggs of seabirds.^[2] They are bold around humans and will follow humans in seabird colonies to take the eggs of seabirds flushed by them.

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ JD Reichel; PO Glass (1990). "Micronesian Starling Predation on Seabird Eggs" (PDF). Emu. 90 (2): 135–136. doi:10.1071/MU9900135.

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] JD Reichel; PO Glass (1990). "Micronesian Starling Predation on Seabird Eggs" (PDF). Emu. 90 (2): 135–136. doi:10.1071/MU9900135.

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