This starling is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It lives mostly in tropical lowlands and lightly wooded forest and excavates nest cavities in rotting or dying trunks.
The UCI page’s 2008 zoo observation describes charcoal plumage, a scarlet rump, and a yellow bill and legs.
Hundreds of pairs nest colonially in cavities they excavate in rotting or dying tree trunks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.