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
Parrot in Musurgia Universalis (1650) saying Χαῖρε ("hello" in Ancient Greek)
Happy Hooligan attempting to rescue a talking parrot in a 1909 comic strip
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
Talking bird
…the corvids, are able to mimic only a few words and phrases, while some budgerigars have been observed to have a vocabulary of almost 2,000 words. The common hill myna, a common pet, is well known for its talking ability and its relative, the common starling, is also adept at mimicry. Wild cockatoos in Australia have…
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