Rose-coloured Starling Sturnus/Pastor roseus
The Rose-coloured Starling, also called Rosy Starling, ranges from east Europe across Asia to China.
It migrates south in winter and may reach west Europe (with occasional vagrants to UK) in summer when food (insects including grasshoppers) is plentiful.
Pictures above show male in breeding plumage with quiff raised; non-breeding and female plumage is duller with less quiff.
Sunbathing, showing iridescent wings. Also, above right, the "quiff" or crest.
The bill is usually pink.
Winter head plumage includes white spots (feather ends).
Subadult. Image by Dr Harsha Vardhan Reddy (India).
Juvenile plumage is pale brown.
The male (right) has a longer crest and brighter plumage than the female (left, smoking weed).
"This'll be a thistle".
Image by Alexandra Makhnina (Kazakhstan).
Like the Common Starling, the Rosy Starling is a gregarious, flocking bird and the flocks can be huge.
Just a small fraction of this flock of hundreds - possibly thousands - on the shore of a lake.
Pink on the rocks
The pink under-wing
An argument