Fiery-browed Starling
Photo © Roland Godon
Photo © Roland Godon — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist #136320384The fiery-browed starling or fiery-browed myna (Enodes erythrophris) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is monotypic within the genus Enodes. Distinguished by a reddish-orange stripe over the eye, it is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, mainly living in humid highland forest. == Taxonomy == Coenraad Jacob Temminck described this species by the name Lamprotornis erythrophris in 1824, and then moved it to the genus Enodes in 1839. It is monotypic within the genus Enodes, being the only species currently recognised. Joseph Harvey Riley described subspecies centralis in 1920, and Erwin Stresemann described subspecies leptorhynchus in 1932. The Handbook of the Birds of the World lists these two subspecies as "provisionally recognized" because they may only be colour variants, while the IOC World Bird List does not recognise any subspecies. == Description == The fiery-browed starling is 27–29 cm (10.6–11.4 in) long. The male and female are similar. The crown, back, throat, breast and belly are dark grey. A bright reddish-orange supercilium starts from the base of the beak and extends over the eye, the feathers behind the eye being black. The flight feathers are brown, their outer webs and the wing coverts covering them…
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