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The crested myna has a gray back and ashy-gray breast paling to buffy-gray on the belly with a white vent. The crown and cheeks are black with dark-blackish wings and tail. Like most mynas, the Pale-bellied myna features a white wing bar and tail bar. The bill is amber and the legs and feet are yellow. Immatures are also browner.
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When to see the Pale-bellied Myna
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pale-bellied Myna
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in India.
About the Pale-bellied Myna
The pale-bellied myna is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. It is endemic to the southwestern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It has been introduced to Tawau, Sabah (Borneo).
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Easily confused with
Black-winged MynaAcridotheres melanopterusThe black-winged myna is a small myna, 23 centimetres (9.1 in) in length.
Collared MynaAcridotheres albocinctusThe collared myna is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.
Burmese MynaAcridotheres burmannicusThe Burmese myna is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae.
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