page_title: Rosy starling
section_title: Food and feeding
hierarchical_section_title: Rosy starling / Behaviour and ecology / Food and feeding
caption_attribution_description: English: Pastor roseus (juvenile)
context_page_description: The rosy starling is a passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae, also known as the rose-coloured starling or rose-coloured pastor. The species was recently placed in its own monotypic genus, Pastor, and split from Sturnus. This split is supported by recent studies, though other related species within its new genus are not yet known for certain.
context_section_description: Chiefly fruits, berries, flower-nectar, cereal grains and insects. 
  Specific observations of preferred food types made on the feeding habits of rosy starling are listed as:
  Fruits and berries: Ficus (many species), Lantana spp., Zizyphus oenoplia, Bridelia hamistoniana, Streblus asper, grapes, mulberries (Morus), dates, Salvadora persica, Capparis aphylla and chillies.
  Flower-nectar: Salmalia persica, Bombax insigne, Erythrina indica and Erythrina suberosa, Butea monosperma, Careya arborea.
  Cereal grains: Jowar and bajra.
  Insects: largely locusts and grasshoppers, beetles of the families Lucanidae, Elateridae, Tenebrionidae, Buprestidae, Scarabaeidae and Curculionidae.
caption: Female Rosy starling
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