Crested Myna
Following the tip off from my sifu yet again;
the family went to Air Hitam for Penang assam laksa and to capture this feral
myna right in town itself. The colony is doing quite well and adapted to the
town life here.
The Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) is a species of starling native to south-eastern China and Indochina. It can be differentiated from its other myna cousins by its bill is dull whitish - ivory like with a pinkish taint at its lower mandible rather than orange-yellow. Its eyes is pale red and its crest looks like a turf overgrown over its beak compared to the White-vented Myna's crown crest which the latter is more regal-like & prominent. I guess this is the last of the Myna species I can see in Malaysia until I stumble upon the supposedly extinct and maybe vagrant Golden-crested Myna in lowland forest in the northern part.....tough luck for us.
The Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) is a species of starling native to south-eastern China and Indochina. It can be differentiated from its other myna cousins by its bill is dull whitish - ivory like with a pinkish taint at its lower mandible rather than orange-yellow. Its eyes is pale red and its crest looks like a turf overgrown over its beak compared to the White-vented Myna's crown crest which the latter is more regal-like & prominent. I guess this is the last of the Myna species I can see in Malaysia until I stumble upon the supposedly extinct and maybe vagrant Golden-crested Myna in lowland forest in the northern part.....tough luck for us.
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