Aboard, a large box of passerines and mynah birds, heading for death in exquisite cages, keeps up a cheerful chorus while the rest of the passengers succumb to a dumb seasickness.China's coast is long and indented.
The bird's decline has been attributed to habitat degradation caused by feral livestock coupled with predation by introduced species such as the great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), common mynah (Acridotheres tristis), and house rat (Rattus rattus).
For the grackle of southern Asia, see mynah.
The house crow, the Indian grackle, and the common mynah are familiar birds in India.
Many varieties of birds are found, such as mynah birds, parrots, crows, kites, partridges, and fowls.
The bare-eyed, or pied, starling (or mynah, S. contra), from India to Java, is black, white, and reddish-brown, with yellow eye skin.
And if I still did not respond, I would hear him whisper, "Mynah," which had become my nickname.
On a single tree you could conceivably find plants and animals from six continents, including parrots from South America, mynah birds and Old World climbing ferns from Asia, vervet monkeys from Africa, ladybird beetles from Australia, and feral cats from Europe, via Africa and Asia.
(In one 1967 experiment, mynah birds were placed in soundproof boxes where they heard tape-recorded words, followed by the dispensing of food pellets; the birds did not learn to mimic the words. Meanwhile, mynahs that had been left out of the experiment, and turned into pets by the lab assistants, talked fluently).
