{"id":254308,"date":"2015-10-13T14:25:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:16:53","slug":"spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/galleries\/small-landbirds\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the starling family Sturnidae. It is closely related to the common starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. It is largely non-migratory.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet: Spotless Starling\u00a0<i>Sturnus\u00a0unicolor<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-614-254308\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7637\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/spotless_starling_1.jpg\" title=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" alt=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/thumbs\/thumbs_spotless_starling_1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7636\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/spotless_starling_0.jpg\" title=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" alt=\"Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor \" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/spotless-starling-sturnus-unicolor\/thumbs\/thumbs_spotless_starling_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Spotless Starling Sturnus unicolor <\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor) is a passerine bird in the starling family Sturnidae. It is closely related to the common starling S. vulgaris, but has a much more restricted range, confined to the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa, southernmost France, and on the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. It is largely non-migratory. Factsheet: Spotless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":254282,"parent":17619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[7984,494,1874,7985],"class_list":["post-254308","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-spotless-starling","tag-starling","tag-sturnidae","tag-sturnus-unicolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/254308\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}