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Acridotheres tristis
This young myna was found in the garden with left leg hurt. our watcher made a cage put it in fed it with fruit and grain. we also got its leg treated with anti septic cream. The leg is getting better. one fine day when it is fully recovered find its freedom out.What makes me interesting is I love bird watching. I can see some birds come to visit it and chat in birdie language. Latest news, the guy got struggling to fly away,the leg looks better now.
on trees in rain forests and home gardens ,woodlands and in urban areas. common in SEAsia.
Spotted on Apr 5, 2015
Submitted on Apr 5, 2015
![salik [jungle myna ] Acridotheres fuscus.](https://lh4.ggpht.com/qDzPY_R83PjBXOJXxzlSzpqdb9GiAcWTY0PzdnjhQVVKGi60nnfKXTUsf22MpaBR8Q0dykAB-EU_6gK6aimD=s62-c)
4 Comments
Thanks for the correction JariyaFarook! If you edit this spotting one more time and enter the scientific name in the Scientific name field, the spotting won't show as Unidentified anymore.
Thank you both Malcolm and Nuwan of course it's common myna, scientific name is 'Acridotheres tristis' it's a slip of my fingers,although I wrote in tag mynah ,yet I slipped to change it.
I agree with Nuwan, juvenile Common Myna.
The only Magpie in Sri Lanka is the endemic Blue Magpie.
Perhaps you are confusing this bird with the Oriental Magpie Robin, similar size but has a much longer tail, white belly and long white wing bars.
good job! it looks like a juvenile Common myna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_myna...