Great Myna
Acridotheres grandisMoore, F, 1858
English (US) Great Myna
The Great Myna (Acridotheres grandis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Sturnidae (Rhabdornis, Starlings, and Mynas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: northeastern India to southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, and IndochinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Acridotheres grandis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Great Myna
- Described by
- Moore, F, 1858
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Moore, F, 1858
- Type locality
- Sumatra (error). Restricted, in error, to Tenasserim by Baker (1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 27, p. 702); and to Bangkok, Thailand, by Deignan (1945, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 186, p. 526).
- Original description
- A catalogue of the birds in The Museum of the Hononrable East-India Company 2 p.537
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Crested Myna
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Pale-bellied Myna
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Javan Myna
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Jungle Myna
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