The fierce looking Asian glossy starling (Aplonis panayensis) is dark with greenish gloss in good light. Most have distinctive ruby-red eyes, but birds in the central and southern Nicobar Islands have pale irises. The juvenile is dark grey-brown above with a heavily streaked white belly. It is found in the subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests of Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan (introduced), Cambodia and Thailand.
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