A message about birds.

Common myna, huahua, Geliao, thrush, parrot, Chinese myna and so on.

English name Crested Myna

Latin scientific name Acridotheres cristatellus

Geographical distribution is widely distributed in South China and Southwest China. Taiwan Province Province, Hainan Island and other places.

Breeding mode spawning

Habitually inhabit villages, pastoral areas and forest margins in the plain, and like to live in groups. They often stand on the backs of buffaloes, or gather in trees, or stand on the roofs in rows. Every evening, they often dance in the air in large groups and live after a while. Spend the night in bamboo forests, trees or reeds, and live in groups with other starlings or crows. They are omnivores and often follow farmers and cows to peck at earthworms, insects and worms. And I like pecking flies, ticks, elephants, locusts, scarabs, crickets and so on. The plant food of myna is mostly the seeds of various plants and weeds, as well as the stems and leaves of banyan trees and vegetables. Breeding from April to July, 2 nests a year, no fixed place, often appearing in cracks in the walls of ancient temples and pagodas, under eaves, in tree holes, sometimes tidying up the old nests of magpies or brown birds with black collars, or borrowing caves abandoned by kingfishers. The nest is large, irregular and slightly shallow, and consists of wastes such as straw, pine leaves, reed stems, feathers and soft hairs. 4-6 eggs are laid, and the eggs are bright jade blue.

Body length: body length is about 25 cm. The whole body feathers are black and shiny, and the yellow forehead feathers on the mouth and feet stand like crowns; There are white spots on the wings, which are particularly obvious when flying. It looks like "eight characters" from below, so it's called starling. The tail feather is white at the end.

Adult birds are fed with eggs and rice as regular feed, and soft food mixed with meat foam, fruit (cut into small pieces) and powder (with thrush) is fed once every morning, and the amount is limited to 1-2 hours. Young birds can feed on powder and meat foam by adding water or using bananas to make mud. Pill feeding, 5-8 times a day. When the birds can eat by themselves, change to soft food, and add eggs and millet when the feathers grow up.

The feather named myna is not gorgeous and her voice is not very nice, but she is not afraid of people, smart and good at imitating others. Some people spoil myna to let it play with others, but most people listen to it to learn to "talk". Therefore, male and female selection is not strict, and the key is to start feeding from young birds. But some people think that female myna is better at imitating than male myna. According to experience, myna with jade white mouth and orange feet is more "smart" than myna with beige mouth and brown feet.

Birds of the finch family, such as myna and myna, are all large caged birds, so the cages are bigger. Because of its miscellaneous eating habits, large appetite and frequent defecation, the bottom of the cage should be bright and there should be a stool board below. In addition, myna has a strong mouth, good health and a strong cage. Generally, the height is 48 cm, the diameter is 36 cm, the strip spacing is 2.2 cm and the strip thickness is 0.4 cm. It can be made of bamboo or lead wire (No.14). A shark skin perches on a pole, a pitcher and a soft food jar, which are deeper, bigger and stronger than ordinary birds. Starlings have a lot of feces and smell, so they should clean the bottom of the cage and the feces supporting plate every other day. At the same time, always bathe the birds. You can put myna in a water bath cage and let it bathe by itself, or you can take a shower with a watering can and put it in the sun to dry. Change the water in the kettle every day, because eating soft food often gargles and is easy to pollute. It is best to teach birds to "talk" from childhood to adulthood, and teach them on an empty stomach every morning and evening. The surrounding environment should be quiet and there should be no noise. If you teach, you should learn one sentence before teaching the second sentence. Give the birds their favorite food every time they make it clear. Like bananas, insects and so on. It needs to be repeated many times. Generally, it takes 3-7 days to learn a sentence, and those who can learn 10 are excellent. It is easiest to learn to talk with an old bird, and it is faster to let the bird face the mirror when teaching. There is no scientific basis for the statement that myna can only learn to "speak" by doing some operation on her tongue. Because most birds' vocal organs are the branches of the "sound tube" and bronchi located at the lower end of the trachea, they sound through the contraction of the attached muscles, while human vocal cords are at the upper end of the trachea.