Starling

Quality:

Sturnidae - family of birds. This taxon is the 1359^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 833^rd most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Starling” in English Wikipedia has 62.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 48 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.3 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 833^rd most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1359^th most popular in taxon.

In June 2026 the article “Starling” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Starling”, its content was written by 304 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1085 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sturnidae is on the 833^rd place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 1359^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 1337 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7527 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4555 in July 2003
• Global: #3568 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #7476 in November 2011
• Global: #15319 in November 2011

There are 50 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, 2026 (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	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Starefamilien		88.5222
2	German (de) Stare		69.9944
3	English (en) Starling		62.6473
4	Esperanto (eo) Sturnedoj		61.8391
5	Latin (la) Sturnidae		46.0713
6	Slovenian (sl) Škorci		45.744
7	Simple English (simple) Starling		37.7592
8	Spanish (es) Sturnidae		37.3349
9	Persian (fa) سار		35.4414
10	Romanian (ro) Graur		35.0346

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Starling		4 982 357
2	German (de) Stare		655 154
3	Persian (fa) سار		293 267
4	Indonesian (id) Jalak		220 176
5	Romanian (ro) Graur		172 874
6	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		167 529
7	French (fr) Sturnidae		138 053
8	Chinese (zh) 椋鸟科		129 249
9	Arabic (ar) زرزوريات		124 671
10	Polish (pl) Szpakowate		119 781

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) Starling		22 345
2	German (de) Stare		1 927
3	Persian (fa) سار		1 295
4	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		1 159
5	Chinese (zh) 椋鸟科		1 094
6	French (fr) Sturnidae		821
7	Romanian (ro) Graur		713
8	Indonesian (id) Jalak		508
9	Hebrew (he) זרזיריים		472
10	Spanish (es) Sturnidae		452

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Starling		304
2	German (de) Stare		116
3	Dutch (nl) Spreeuwen		60
4	French (fr) Sturnidae		40
5	Russian (ru) Скворцовые		40
6	Hungarian (hu) Seregélyfélék		34
7	Danish (da) Stære		29
8	Persian (fa) سار		26
9	Italian (it) Sturnidae		26
10	Japanese (ja) ムクドリ科		24

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) Starling		2
2	Korean (ko) 찌르레기과		2
3	Arabic (ar) زرزوريات		1
4	Catalan (ca) Estúrnids		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Sturnedoj		1
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Čvorci		1
7	Slovenian (sl) Škorci		1
8	Azerbaijani (az) Sığırçınlar		0
9	Belarusian (be) Шпаковыя		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Скорецови		0

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

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