Not as in its description. “Superb starling” is literally what it’s called. Lamprotornis superbus. I find them significantly more superb than the common European starling, anyway.
These are endemic to Eastern Africa which is obviously not where I spotted this one. Naturally, it was in a zoo.
Here’s a bonus picture of it going scritch.
I have no idea if this was a male or a female since they are not sexually dimorphic and this one was, for the first time in recorded history, not making any noises.
Edit: I notice these are the very birds pictured in the “birds make friends, too” article posted here recently. How serendipitous.
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