The Magpie Starling is an East African starling with blue-black upperparts, white underparts, a white wing bar, and red eyes. It feeds mainly on fruit and gathers in flocks in dry scrub.
Adults have blue-black heads, upperparts, and upper breast, a white wing bar and underside, and blood-red eyes. Females are duller; juveniles are brown with a white belly, and their eyes become orange-red as they mature.
It feeds mainly on fruit, with some insects, and forages on the ground and in trees in flocks that may number several dozen. It is nomadic.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.