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The common myna or Indian myna (Acridotheres tristis), sometimes spelled mynah, [2] is a bird in the family Sturnidae, native to Asia.An omnivorous open woodland bird with a strong territorial instinct, the common myna has adapted extremely well to urban environments.
Mynas are not a natural group; [1] instead, the term myna is used for any starling in the Indian subcontinent, regardless of their relationships. This range was colonized twice during the evolution of starlings, first by rather ancestral starlings related to the coleto and Aplonis lineages, and millions of years later by birds related to the ...
Common myna; I. Indian pied myna This page was last edited on 20 December 2019, at 22:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Mexico. The avifauna of Mexico included a total of 1136 species as of April 2024, according to Bird Checklists of the World . [ 1 ] Of the 1135 species, 113 are rare or accidental , 10 have been introduced by humans, 112 are endemic , and five more breed only in Mexico though their non-breeding ...
This myna is almost entirely arboreal, moving in large, noisy groups of half a dozen or so, in tree-tops at the edge of the forest. It hops sideways along the branch, unlike the characteristic jaunty walk of other mynas. Like most starlings, the hill myna is fairly omnivorous, eating fruit, nectar and insects. [9] They build a nest in a hole in ...
Eat like you're in Mexico City with shrimp cocktail and peanutty sweet potatoes. Ana Castro. April 20, 2023 at 10:45 AM. Chef Ana Castro of Lengua Madre in New Orleans, Louisiana is stopping by ...
The Indian pied myna was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Sturnus contra. [2] Linnaeus based his description on the "Contra, from Bengall" that had been described and illustrated in 1738 by Eleazar Albin and the "Black and White Indian Starling ...
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