rose-colored starling

noun

variants or rose-colored pastor

: a glossy black chiefly Asian bird (Pastor sturnus or P. roseus) of the family Sturnidae with a pink back and abdomen that is chiefly Asian though often appearing in flocks in Europe and sometimes in England

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