When I first saw this black, thrush-sized bird, it extended its orange-red wings and landed at the roadside just a few meters from the car. I shouted in surprise - the color combination of orange and black was strikingly beautiful - but we were in the middle of a crossroads with a lot of traffic. No pictures. Then I kept an eye out, but no more glossy starlings. On March 8, however, we went on an excursion with the head of "The International Birding and Research Center in Eilat", Noam Weiss, and in a dry valley in the Arava Desert, we spotted two Tristram's starlings sitting on a couple of rocks. The male was strikingly beautiful and elegant, but, as you can see in the picture, the orange field is limited to a few greater coverts when the wings are folded.