Asian starling, scientific name: Aplonis panayensis (Scopoli, 1783), also known as the starling, Filipino starling.
China division southeast coastal area, Hong Kong, Hainan Island.
Gregarious , small groups of to dozens of individuals perch on the roofs of taller buildings , feeding in groups on parks or sidewalk trees in the city. Tree species that often inhabit Kaohsiung include Abel, Bauhinia chinensis, King Coconut, Flame Wood, Jibe Cotton, Yellow Locust, Indian Rosewood, Pukui, Bodhi, Iron Knife Wood, etc. There are quite fixed nocturnal habitats and day-to-day work and rest patterns, in the early morning from the night-dwelling area into groups of less than 10 small groups of each going out to forage, before dusk will gather in a fixed high perch, usually the roof of a building, the common scale of about 20, 30, collective noise, each feather, before dark to fly in batches to the fixed tree night roost. Arboreal, always moving at heights, hardly falling to the ground. Flying drums are fast and fast, moving freely between the street trees and tall buildings in the metropolis, gradually finding their ecological habitat in the upper layers of the city.
Breeds between May and July, with 3 to 4 nest chicks and the female incubates the eggs