Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis

A small to medium-sized starling, dark above and pale below with long buffy or gray streaks. Note the distinctive pale or white wing panel. Usually has a pale eye, but eye is dark in eastern Fiji and south Tonga. Common in all habitats. Samoan Starling is much larger and more uniformly dark, lacking a pale wing panel. Rusty-winged Starling is paler above with a dark eye and no pale wing panel. Polynesian’s most common call is a high-pitched repetitive “twee-wee.”