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Common Myna

Acridotheres tristis

Photo by marirs
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Field Notes

Description:

The Common Myna is an important motif in Indian culture and appears both in Sanskrit and Prakrit literature.

Notes:

This guy, was shot at my Balcony in Pune, Maharashtra India. He looks cool, combed, neat; and ready to take off!!

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Common Myna

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Comments (3)
AntónioGinjaGinja
Great capture Marirs,beautiful series,congrats and thanks for sharing such a beautiful spottings page. if you have the time ,it would be very nice if you can add some information in your spottings,some informations about the species and some lines about how you find the "model" :-) it's nice for all,people like very much to know details of the spottings and we allways care about the educational side of project Noah spottings.Thanks again,see you arround

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