Our Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a jewel of shimmering colors - in the right light and up close. The starlings in southern Europe belong to another species (Sturnus unicolor) that lacks these colors and is unicolor black. In Swedish, it has therefore been called 'Black starling' and in English Spotless starling. The bird in the picture appeared in a ruin in Syracuse - the birthplace of Santa Lucia (somehow Sweden's most prominent saint).