Profile
In flight
Songbirds
Common Myna
Acridotheres tristis
- common
- 32 km/h
- Starter
- Least Concern
Can mimic your voice when delivering. Might improvise the message a little.
- Population
- Global population size not numerically quantified by IUCN/BirdLife; described qualitatively as very large and increasing (BirdLife DataZone factsheet renders as a dynamic/JS page that could not be scraped this session; IUCN Red List species page returned 403/404). The species is listed among the IUCN's "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species."
- Habitat
- Open woodland, farmland, and cultivated land, and especially urban and suburban areas (parks, gardens, roadsides, areas with tall vertical structures and little ground vegetation); avoids dense forest; occurs from sea level up to roughly 3,000 m elevation
- Fun fact
- The Common Myna is one of very few birds named on the IUCN's list of "100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species," prized as a caged bird in its native range yet notorious elsewhere for displacing native cavity-nesting birds after introduction.
- Range
- Native to southern and central Asia (Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Central Asian republics, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indochina, southern China, and Japan); widely introduced and established in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Madagascar and other Indian Ocean islands, Fiji and other Pacific islands, Hawaii and South Florida (USA), parts of Canada, parts of Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere
- Diet
- Omnivorous — insects, grubs, earthworms, spiders, crustaceans, small reptiles and mammals (including mice), eggs and nestlings of other birds, fruit, seeds, grain, flower nectar and petals, and discarded human food/garbage; forages mostly on the ground
- Size
- 0.24 m
- Wingspan
- 0.4 m
- Lifespan
- 12 years
