Profile
In flight
Tropical Birds
Common Hill Myna
Gracula religiosa
- legendary
- 75 km/h
- Least Concern
The forest mimic that learned human speech before anyone asked it to. Its wild whistles ring across Asian canopies in voices that sound oddly like our own.
- Population
- large but declining locally due to cage-bird trapping
- Habitat
- humid evergreen and semi-evergreen lowland tropical forest, forest edge
- Diet
- figs and other rainforest fruit, nectar, large insects, small lizards
- Size
- 0.29 m
- Wingspan
- 0.5 m
