Siamese Pied Myna

When to see the Siamese Pied Myna

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Siamese Pied Myna

The map shades 5 countries 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 Laos.

About the Siamese Pied Myna

The Siamese pied myna is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Its plumage is black and white, with a black collar. It is found in southern Myanmar to Thailand and Laos. It previously was considered a subspecies of the pied myna, which has now been split into three species. It can be distinguished from the Indian pied myna and Javan pied myna by more extensive white streaking on its forehead from both and a wider extent of bare red-orange facial skin around the eye compared to G. contra, but much less compared to G. jalla.

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Easily confused with

Black-collared StarlingGracupica nigricollisThe black-collared starling is 26–30 cm (10–12 in) long. Indian Pied MynaGracupica contraThis myna is strikingly marked in black and white and has a yellowish bill with a reddish bill base.