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Common Myna in Rabindra Sarobar February 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01🐦

Photo: Tisha Mukherjee · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPasseriformesSturnidae
Birds

🐦Common myna

Acridotheres tristis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Brunmajna (Acridotheres tristis; tidigare majnastare, mainastare eller herdestare) är en tätting i familjen starar. Den förekommer ursprungligen i södra och sydöstra Asien, men har införts till många andra platser i världen och där etablerat frilevande populationer. Arten är liksom många starar ljudlig och flocklevande. Från att ursprungligen ha förekommit i öppna skogsområden har den anpassats sig väl till människan och uppträder idag även i parker och trädgårdar.

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≈ 1/530th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.12 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common myna

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.12 kg
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Tail length
0.08 m
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Wing length
0.14 m
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Beak length
0.03 m
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Tarsus length
0.04 m
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Trophic level
Carnivore
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Habitat
Human Modified
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common myna yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familySturnidae
  6. ›genusAcridotheres
  7. ›speciesAcridotheres tristis
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
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Acridotheres tristis (es), majna brunatna (pl), מיינה מצויה (he), Martin triste (fr), pásztormejnó (hu), Hirtenmaina (de) … and 24 more languages
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Common Myna in Rabindra Sarobar February 2025 by Tisha Mukherjee 01Acridotheres tristis by fishhead 02Acridotheres tristis Forest Botial Jarvis 341735878
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