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The Bali myna is restricted to the northwest Bali (and its offshore islands) in Indonesia, [1] [9] where it is the island's only endemic vertebrate species. In 1991, the bird was designated the faunal emblem of Bali. Featured on the Indonesian 200 rupiah coin, its local name is jalak Bali (Balinese script: ᬚᬮᬓ᭄ᬩᬮᬶ).
The mynas (/ ˈ m aɪ n ə /; also spelled mynah) are a group of birds in the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to Iran and Southern Asia , especially Afghanistan , India , Pakistan , Bangladesh , Nepal and Sri Lanka .
Indonesia has more endemic birds than any other country. Indonesia's size, tropical climate, and archipelagic geography, support the world's second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).
The starling species familiar to most people in Europe and North America is the common starling, and throughout much of Asia and the Pacific, the common myna is indeed common. Starlings have strong feet, their flight is strong and direct, and they are very gregarious .
Bali myna, (Jalak Bali) is one of the protected birds located in West Bali National Park Crab-eating macaque monkeys in Uluwatu Ubud Monkey Forest. Bali lies just to the west of the Wallace Line, [47] and thus has a fauna that is Asian in character, with very little Australasian influence, and has more in common with Java than with Lombok. [48]
Bali myna; Balicassiao; Baliem whistler; Balsas screech owl; Baltimore oriole; Bamboo antshrike; Bamboo foliage-gleaner; Bamboo warbler; Bamboo woodpecker; Bamenda apalis; Bananal antbird; Bananaquit; Banasura laughingthrush; Band-backed wren; Band-bellied crake; Band-bellied owl; Band-rumped storm petrel; Band-rumped swift; Band-tailed antbird ...
Some of the zoo's most notable birds include the famous laughing kookaburra in the scrub display, multiple scarlet ibis specimens in its swamp display and the Bali myna, a critically endangered bird that Lincoln Park Zoo breeds, while also maintaining the species' studbook. Thirty-one mynahs have been born at the zoo since 1972, with the most ...
Extant East Asian starlings, such as the Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi) and the white-headed starling (Sturnia erythropygia), have similarities with these extinct species in colouration and other features. As the Rodrigues and Mauritius starlings seem to be more closely related to each other than to the hoopoe starling, which appears to be ...