Wattled Starlings at Kalahari Salt Pan, Botswana, Africam
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🌍 Wattled Starling (Creatophora cinerea) The Wattled Starling is a medium-sized bird, mainly grey with a white rump and black flight feathers. Breeding males sport a distinctive featherless yellow and black head with dangling black wattles on the crown and throat. It is a nomadic species distributed widely across eastern and southern Africa, preferring open, arid habitats and grasslands. Highly gregarious, they are found in large, erratic flocks that move in response to abundant insect food sources, such as locust swarms, and they breed colonially. No subspecies are recognised. 2.5 Flash (Edited) Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Fun fact: During the breeding season the male bird becomes almost completely bald on its head and develops dramatic, fleshy, black wattles on its forehead and throat. These features recede and the feathers grow back once the season is over! 📷: Photo by dragh via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/starling-bird-animal-feathers-8925834/ WXPA

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Wattled Starling lives in savanna across most of eastern and southern Africa. #ethiopia #nature #bird #birds #birding #starling #wattledstarling