Scientific name: Creatophora cinerea (Meuschen, 1787).

This is an african bird: Cameroon, Gabon, Angola, Zaire, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Yemen, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,
Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

Books: Starlings and Mynas

For backyard feeders: try Birds-Out-Back.