The Brown-winged Starling lives on Bougainville and the Solomon Islands. It uses forest and open places with tall trees, where it searches for fruit and insects.
Males and females look similar. The glossy black plumage has green and purple sheen, while the flight feathers are brown.
It uses moist lowland forest, secondary growth, and cleared places or villages with tall trees. It forages high in trees for fruit and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.