Common starling

Quality:

Common Starling - species of bird. This taxon is the 502^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 885^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Common starling” in English Wikipedia has 97.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 244 references and 20 sections.

This article has the best quality in Polish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 885^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 502^nd most popular in taxon.

In June 2025 the article “Common starling” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Common starling”, its content was written by 400 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2150 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Common Starling is on the 885^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 502^nd place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 639 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3630 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1079 in May 2015
• Global: #759 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7702 in May 2015
• Global: #4807 in May 2020

There are 48 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Polish (pl) Szpak (zwyczajny)		100
2	Hungarian (hu) Seregély		100
3	Chinese (zh) 紫翅椋鸟		100
4	Turkish (tr) Sığırcık		99.6734
5	Spanish (es) Sturnus vulgaris		99.0909
6	Galician (gl) Estorniño pinto		98.0489
7	Korean (ko) 흰점찌르레기		97.978
8	English (en) Common starling		97.8912
9	Portuguese (pt) Estorninho-malhado		95.4186
10	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный скворец		91.8155

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common starling		4 461 146
2	German (de) Star (Art)		2 233 885
3	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный скворец		1 546 384
4	French (fr) Étourneau sansonnet		1 421 105
5	Polish (pl) Szpak (zwyczajny)		1 210 535
6	Spanish (es) Sturnus vulgaris		929 978
7	Italian (it) Sturnus vulgaris		633 735
8	Dutch (nl) Spreeuw		520 794
9	Swedish (sv) Stare		502 981
10	Czech (cs) Špaček obecný		461 266

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Common starling		25 880
2	German (de) Star (Art)		13 203
3	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный скворец		11 924
4	French (fr) Étourneau sansonnet		11 208
5	Spanish (es) Sturnus vulgaris		6 295
6	Polish (pl) Szpak (zwyczajny)		6 201
7	Swedish (sv) Stare		3 555
8	Italian (it) Sturnus vulgaris		2 757
9	Czech (cs) Špaček obecný		2 575
10	Dutch (nl) Spreeuw		2 569

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common starling		400
2	German (de) Star (Art)		252
3	French (fr) Étourneau sansonnet		158
4	Polish (pl) Szpak (zwyczajny)		111
5	Dutch (nl) Spreeuw		109
6	Italian (it) Sturnus vulgaris		94
7	Russian (ru) Обыкновенный скворец		78
8	Hebrew (he) זרזיר מצוי		69
9	Hungarian (hu) Seregély		65
10	Danish (da) Stær		64

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Common starling		5
2	Arabic (ar) زرزور أوروبي		2
3	German (de) Star (Art)		2
4	Catalan (ca) Estornell comú		1
5	French (fr) Étourneau sansonnet		1
6	Swedish (sv) Stare		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Шпак звичайний		1
8	Urdu (ur) یوریشیائی تلیر		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Adi sığırçın		0
10	Belarusian (be) Шпак звычайны		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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