Regional accounts describe the Spot-winged Starling as breeding in Himalayan foothills and wintering around northeast India. A flock feeding on flower nectar was recorded in northeast India, but that account is a single site and date.
The regional identification account describes males with gray head and back, chestnut throat, rufous breast and flanks, and a white wing patch visible in flight. Females are brown above with fine throat streaking.
On 30 January 1994, an Indian Birds note reported more than ten birds feeding on nectar from Bombax ceiba flowers near Kolomy camp and called the species a wintering bird. One observation cannot establish its usual diet or flock frequency.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.