Starling with bright and striking colors, with metallic blue tones on the wings and upper part of the body, they have a darker head and an orange belly with a characteristic white stripe like a collar. Unlike the royal starling, its tail is short.

Like other starlings, the superb starling has a curious cooperative breeding system in which the parents are helped by the rest of the group in feeding the young. Their nests usually hang from the branches of acacia trees, although they also stay in holes in the trunk or even rock walls.

They choose acacias for the protection their thorns offer. If these are not enough or do not exist, they place them themselves after taking them from other trees, at the entrance to the nest as a sharp barrier.

The male and female share the responsibility of building the nest, incubating the eggs, and feeding the chicks.

They are noisy birds that have a wide variety of calls. In the Amboseli National Park (Kenya) it has been observed that vervet monkeys recognize the warning call issued by starlings at the sight of a predator.