The superb starling is a pretty common bird on east African safaris. That said, I still love seeing these colorful little guys as they fly from perch to perch, or, more often, from ground to perch. I photographed this one at close range in Samburu. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/640th of a second.
What a beautiful photo! I also fell for these beauties and thought to myself, someone brought Common Mynas to Hawai‘i. Why couldn’t they have brought THESE instead?
In fact, I first saw these in 1997 in Botswana and also the Lilac-Breasted Roller and from that moment, I became a BIRDER! Since then, my husband and I have traveled all over the world just to see the birds!
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Such beautiful coloring
What a gorgeous little bird!! A little bit robin, a little bit bluebird—-sweeeeet!
Wow, is that a gorgeous bird!
What a beautiful photo! I also fell for these beauties and thought to myself, someone brought Common Mynas to Hawai‘i. Why couldn’t they have brought THESE instead?
In fact, I first saw these in 1997 in Botswana and also the Lilac-Breasted Roller and from that moment, I became a BIRDER! Since then, my husband and I have traveled all over the world just to see the birds!