The atoll starling (''Aplonis feadensis'') is a species of

starling Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. The Sturnidae are named for the genus ''Sturnus'', which in turn comes from the Latin word for starling, ''sturnus''. Many Asian species, particularly the larger ones, ...

in the family Sturnidae. It is found in northern Melanesia:

Green Islands The Green Islands is a small archipelago of islands in the Solomon Sea, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in northeastern Papua New Guinea. They are located at , about northwest of Bougainville Island, and about east of Rabaul an ...

Nuguria Nuguria or the Nuguria Islands, also known as the Abgarris or Fead Islands,Richard Parkinson et al. ''Thirty years in the South Seas'', 1999 are a Polynesian outlier and islands of Papua New Guinea. They are located nearly 150 km from the nor ...

, Ninigo,

Hermit Islands The Hermit Islands are a group of 17 islands within the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Their coordinates are . History The first sighting by Europeans of Hermit islands was by the Spanish navigator Iñigo Órtiz ...

and

Ontong Java Atoll Ontong Java Atoll or Luangiua, (formerly ''Lord Howe Atoll'', not to be confused with Lord Howe Island) is one of the largest atolls on earth. Geographically it belongs to a scattered group of three atolls which includes nearby Nukumanu Atol ...

. Its natural

habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...

is subtropical or tropical moist lowland

forest A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' ...

s. The species apparently nests in holes in trees. It is threatened by

habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby ...

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atoll starling The atoll starling (''Aplonis feadensis'') is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is found in northern Melanesia: Green Islands (Papua New Guinea), Green Islands, Nuguria, Ninigo Islands, Ninigo, Hermit Islands and Ontong Java Atol ...

Birds of Papua New Guinea Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago Birds of the Solomon Islands

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