Common hill myna
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The common hill myna, sometimes spelled "mynah" and formerly simply known as the hill myna or myna bird, is a species of starling found in the hills of South and Southeast Asia. The Sri Lanka hill myn
Common Hill Myna, Satchari NP, Bangladesh 1
Pair of G. r. intermedia at Madi, Nepal
Courting pair allopreening at Jayanti in the Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India
Adult at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore
Talking bird
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Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have some cognitive understanding of the language. B
Common hill myna
…southern hill myna (G. indica) from the Nilgiris and elsewhere in the Western Ghats of India as a separate species. The common hill myna is a popular talking bird. Its specific name religiosa may allude to the practice of teaching mynas to repeat sacred prayers. The common hill myna is one of the most commonly…
Parrot in Musurgia Universalis (1650) saying Χαῖρε ("hello" in Ancient Greek)
Happy Hooligan attempting to rescue a talking parrot in a 1909 comic strip