Editing Spotless starling (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Spotless starling
| image = Estornino Negro. Casa de Campo. Madrid (3).jpg
| image_caption = in winter plumage
| image2 = Sturnus unicolor-male singing.jpg
| image2_caption = breeding male
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Sturnus unicolor'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22710893A87851643 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22710893A87851643.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Sturnus unicolor
| authority = [[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]], 1820
| range_map = Unicolor.gif
}}
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 the islands of [[Sicily]], [[Corsica]] and [[Sardinia]]. It is largely [[bird migration|non-migratory]].<ref name=Hoyo>{{cite book | editor-last = Hoyo| editor-first = J. del |display-editors=etal | title = Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 14| publisher = Lynx Edicions| year = 2009 | location = Barcelona| pages = 725 | isbn = 978-84-96553-50-7}}</ref><ref name=ebcc>Hagemeijer, W. J. M., & Blair, M. J., eds. (1997). ''[[The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds]]'' pp. 690. Poyser, London {{ISBN|0-85661-091-7}}.</ref><ref name=Snow>{{cite book |title=The Birds of the Western Palearctic |last=Snow |first=D. W. |author2=Perrins, C. M. | edition = Concise | year=1998 | pages = 1496–1498 | publisher=Oxford University Press |location= Oxford|isbn= 0-19-854099-X}}</ref>