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title: "Chestnut-cheeked Starling"
description: "Agropsar philippensis — Uccelli. The chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/chestnut-cheeked-starling
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chestnut-cheeked Starling

> Agropsar philippensis — Uccelli. The chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.

- Scientific name: *Agropsar philippensis*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1067
- Wikidata: [Q1586190](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1586190)
- iNaturalist taxon: [547200](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/547200)

## Names

- en: Chestnut-cheeked Starling
- de: Violettrückenstar
- es: Estornino carirrojo
- fr: Étourneau à joues marron
- nl: Roodwangspreeuw
- pl: Szpak rdzawolicy

## Countries with the most observations

JP (333), KR (54), RU (54), TW (35), CN (14), PH (14), MY (10), SG (10), ID (8), TH (8), HK (6), IN (4)

## Summary

The chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It breeds in Japan and the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuriles; it winters in Taiwan, the Philippines and northern Borneo.
The chestnut-cheeked starling was previously placed in the genus Sturnus. It was moved to the resurrected genus Agropsar based on the results of two molecular phylogenetic studies that were published in 2008.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut-cheeked_starling

## Photo

![Chestnut-cheeked Starling](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chestnut-cheeked-starling/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Matthews · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33990092

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chestnut-cheeked-starling?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).