Jungle Myna

How to identify

Field marks

1. Tufted crest on the forehead
2. Bright yellow bill, legs and feet; dark base of the bill
3. Large white patches at the bases of the primaries in flight; white tail tip
4. Gray feathers, darker on the head and wings

Male, female and young

Sexes indistinguishable in plumage; juveniles are more rufous with a paler throat.

Voice

Calls are higher in pitch than those of Common Myna; foraging flocks give short, twittering contact calls.

Similar species

Great Myna

The subspecies in northeastern India resembles Great Myna, but Great Myna is darker and does not have a pale iris.

Common Myna

Jungle Myna lacks bare skin around the eye, and its calls are higher in pitch than those of Common Myna.

Where and when it's recorded

Jungle Myna has been recorded at 366 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 16 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Saul Kere / Sowl KereIndia2,850 records
2. GKVK CampusIndia2,773 records
3. SunkadakatteIndia2,185 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaNepalBangladeshMalaysiaFijiChinaMyanmar (Burma)Samoa

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The jungle myna (Acridotheres fuscus) is a myna, a member of the starling family. It is found patchily distributed across much of the mainland of the Indian Subcontinent but absent in the arid zones of India. It is easily recognized by the tuft of feathers on its forehead that form a frontal crest, a feature also found in the closely related Javan myna and the pale-bellied myna which were treated as a subspecies in the past.

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