This starling lives in dry savanna from Ethiopia to northeastern Tanzania. Adults have blue-green upperparts and golden underparts; females have shorter tails than males.
Adults have glossy blue-green heads and backs, a purple breast patch, and golden underparts. Females are similar but have shorter tails; juveniles have dull grey heads, throats, and breasts with buff-yellow underparts.
In dry savanna, it forages on the ground in small groups, eating mainly insects and some fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.