Violet-backed Starlings (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) occur in sub-Saharan Africa and on the western side of the Arabian Peninsula.
The sexes are dramatically different — males are iridescent purple-blue with a brilliant white belly, and females and juveniles have brown upperparts and brown-streaked white bellies.
This male Violet-backed Starling was perched, displaying on a dead branch at Hippo Pools on the Crocodile River in Kruger National Park.
(January 16, 2020)
