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23 Jan 2015, 8:58 am

ImAnAspie loves them and since he's been having some RL issues lately, I thought this might cheer him up

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23 Jan 2015, 9:10 am

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23 Jan 2015, 2:43 pm

Thank you Booyakasha,

This is so nice of you.

This is one of my favs:

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23 Jan 2015, 3:06 pm

No problem at all

Those are pretty birds indeed:

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23 Jan 2015, 4:35 pm

Those birds have a rather determined look to them.

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23 Jan 2015, 8:26 pm

I like those birds. Their determined look reminds me of the way I look when I'm recycling. I also like their brown puppy eyes. :O)

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24 Jan 2015, 12:31 pm

Those pics are cool! I could LOOK at pretty birds, all DAY----I just don't wanna HEAR them!

I'm terribly sorry, ImAnAspie, that you're having such a rough time in person, right now. Here's hoping things will improve, REAL SOON!!

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24 Jan 2015, 12:32 pm

Booyakasha wrote:

No problem at all

Those are pretty birds indeed:

Thank you so much

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24 Jan 2015, 12:44 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:

Exactly!! Thanks to everyone who posted btw

ImAnAspie wrote:

Booyakasha wrote:

No problem at all

Those are pretty birds indeed:

Thank you so much

Really, no problem at all.

Pretty birds indeed!

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24 Jan 2015, 2:28 pm

He seems to be reluctant to talk about them, so I'll start - taken from wiki:

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The myna (also known as mynah) is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India. Several species have been introduced to areas like North America, Australia, South Africa, Fiji and New Zealand, especially the common myna which is often regarded as an invasive species.

Mynas are not a natural group (Zuccon et al. 2006); instead, the term myna is used for any starling in the Indian subcontinent, regardless of their relationships. This range was colonized twice during the evolution of starlings, first by rather ancestral starlings related to the Coleto and Aplonis lineages, and millions of years later by birds related to the common starling and wattled starling's ancestors. These two groups of mynas can be distinguished in the more terrestrial adaptions of the latter, which usually also have less glossy plumage except on the heads and longer tails. The Bali myna which is nearly extinct in the wild is highly distinctive.

Some mynas are considered talking birds, for their ability to reproduce sounds, including human speech, when in captivity.

"Myna" is derived from the Hindi language mainā which itself is derived from Sanskrit madanā.

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24 Jan 2015, 2:32 pm

Myna perched in a flowering tree, Nishiki-e (color woodblock print) by Isoda Koryusai, ca. 1775.

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24 Jan 2015, 4:25 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:

Thank you. Just saw your message now.

I really appreciate that. That's very nice of you. Thank you!

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28 Jan 2015, 12:13 pm

That's amazing! Like parrots!

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30 Jan 2015, 5:05 am

I saw this thread and I knew I had to enter

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30 Jan 2015, 6:30 am

I didn't know this at first but after I started researching them and found out that everyone hated them, regarded them as flying rats and wanted to kill them, suddenly I felt a great kinship with them. I think that's what helped cement my interest in my now 3 year long Special Interest in Common/Indian Myna Birds!

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