Myna Studios: SECRET INVASION | Javan & Common Mynas 

Maybe can do one on everyone’s favourite bird: UwU bird / Asian Koel !! 😂

your "common mynas" are our Indian mynas in Australia. They've taken over

In the seventies, the native mynah were still around.Yes you are right the Javan mynah won the turf war. But in those days, the Javan was preferred over the native type as pet for boys in the sixties, seventies. We keep them from young and they identify us as their parents and will recognise our whistling and flew to us their owners. Those were wonderful days being a child, life was simple, fun . Though lack of material comfort, but people were happier. I missed those time.

Great perspective on invasive species! Thanks for the video!

Is there a reason why mynahs do that head nodding thing? Always wondered why they did that

After living in Singapore for more 10 years I always wonder who are this little birds! Now I know! Thank you for sharing!😊

I once saw a mynah stuck on a bird spike in Chong Pang :( it was calling out non stop and it’s partner mynah didn’t leave its side 😢

Great vid as always! Never knew that the Common Mynah is an invasive species overseas... would love to know more about other invasive species in Singapore :D

Thanks for explaining it so well. I haven't been to Singapore, but this is still good information. We have common Mynahs in Bengaluru 🇮🇳 I can relate to them 😉 Did you know giraffes are facing extinction ? I just found out !

they're actually pretty cute and intelligent, i once rescued it from my air conditioning compressor and took it in as a pet and it learnt how to imitate phrases and words

my indonesian friends tell me that in Java itself the Javan myna is actually quite rare in the wild now, having their numbers be decimated by hunting to sell as pets or songbirds. nowadays if you find one they often fetch a high price, ard RP65k (SGD7 ish) on the lowest end, and as high as RP1.1mil (ard SGD100) for rarer breeds and colours, with most good ones going around RP250k (ard SGD 20) depending on size and location. the unemployed often catch them to make an easy buck

If the Javan Mynahs are thriving and flourishing successfully in Singapore, even though declining in Native Indonesia, then why are they listed as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN? 🤔

We have two invasive species, the Pakistani parrot and the Indian myna bird. You may find it interesting that I am writing this message from Turkey.

I already know about the Javan Mynas. But I didn’t know the common myna were ‘invading’ too

Fun and educational. 😊

mynas are so cute i love them

amazing job again!

My biggest theory is that Javan myna birds when introduced to Malaysia Singapore and Southern Thailand for the very first time they would have actually displaced a lot of the native birds that would have lived in these parts of Southeast Asia. In my opinion these birds would have been escapes from pet cages and that would have been a deliberate sign from the pet trade industry. Also if you notice about the common myna birds declining in population anywhere else around Malaysia and Singapore, this is why. Nevertheless, commom mynas have actually been very much an introduced, yet actually became rather invasive species in places like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Fiji, new Caledonia and also Florida in the USA etc. Honourable mentions include Turkey, Israel, the Middle East and even more so recently Cyprus. Common myna birds are also known as Indian myna birds. Plus another species that you've actually forgotten to put up in a list is the great myna bird. It's another black and white bird very similar to other myna species but apparently it also has a very impressive head tuft on the front of its head giving the impression of a mohawk. I actually hollered it out for you because I actually noticed that when I actually went to Malaysia with my family and such I actually remember seeing these birds normally in pairs yet small to large flocks still exist.

There was no mynahs until the fifties. They flourished after that. The black species came subsequently in the sixties. They could have been brought in owing to the idea that this type could learn to talk. Then came the crows later.

WOW that’s so interesting I did not know that they always are in pairs

Very informative video, I see the advertisement paid off :D

they're all adorable birds!

It's funny, but in my Central Asian country your native common myna (with yellow patches around eyes) is a parasite 😂 They are so aggressive, attacked even me for many years because their nest was between my and neighbour's storey (unreachable). Also they group in the evenings on the trees (hundreds!) and make loud awful noises. Btw, sometimes a bunches of loud women sitting near house entrances are called "maynas" here for the same reasons 🤣

I ever saw 5 gang up on 1 , very fierce fight

I once saw a leucistic javan myna at a hawker centre in ang mo kio. I didn't take a pic tho

Damn, you can really rap😱you're good sia👍

Myna is cute n cheerful charecter. ❤️

And who went out of Singapore to invite investors for our survival in the first place 🕵🏽‍♂️🤔🇸🇬zoo and bird park full of non -- native species...... please review

Do both species cross breed?

Wow! Great video. It's not just a, Myna Story, This video best explains, 'Global Huaman Migration'! 'Foreign Species, rapidly replacing Local Species'! But there'll always be light at the end of the tunnel, for Locals. You'll thrive elsewhere, only if you migrate! Lol

The first fun I saw the common myna I thought it had cheese on its eyes 😅

Hi....gd night🌃...My sister ever encounter javan minah flew into our kitchen foraging and stealing food. She chase the birds away and left it's 💩 poo on the kitchen table. So disgusting and fed up..... To clean up....

Can you do crow

4:14 interracial couple!! 😂

Same as CECA and FTs

I think In the ecosystem that something is endemic to keeps everything under control

Respect u buddy got which Engle in Singapore have outside..😂😂😂😂🧐🤔🤨

Steal food scrap? I don't see it that way though

Please do an episode on crows

They need to apply for visa. Call MOM!!

Well now we know why mynahs are every were in singapore hahaha

There is another myna you forgot to mention.

The most owful bird🤮🤮🤮🤮

It's Palestinian not **** it doesn't exist It's like Myna not their land