mynahs

Why are there only crows and mynahs in my gardens?

Kanha's Dream 2010

Though they are mostly an invasive PITA over here, strlngs (or dwarf European mynahs, if you prefer * grin*) do make what my family calls pepper sky.

Crows Birds stealing coins from car wash? - Boing Boing 2008

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

Black mynahs, egrets, long-tailed shrikes, reed warblers, and Indian pond herons flitted through the dense foliage, and Himalayan kingfishers dropped like turquoise missiles into the water.

Paradise Regained? 2008

The hill mynahs which are black, look bad tempered and have bright yellow beaks, are wonderful songsters and good mimics.

EIGHT FOR DYING • by Lily Thomas 2007

These (the ones that inspire the rhyme) are the common mynahs.

EIGHT FOR DYING • by Lily Thomas 2007

Apart from those species particularly associated with the sea and wetlands, there is also a considerable variety of forest birds such as woodpeckers, barbets, shrikes, drongos, mynahs, minivets, babblers and many others.

Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

Btw, that “one for sorrow …” rhyme is popular in India too, possibly a hand me down from our past colonizers or perhaps the Irish teachers/nuns & priests; except that here it is for mynahs – small brown birds with vivd yellow beaks and very pesky.

EIGHT FOR DYING • by Lily Thomas 2007

The runway here is visited by raptors called black kites, as well as resident birds such as pigeons, doves, mynahs and sparrows.

Fowl-Ups at the Bagram Airfield 2008