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THE
MINÁ OR MAINA
Name
Indian given to a fowl of the family
Starlings
, of which is
The
Starling
ial time the knownest one. This common name is
given to 7 species of the same family. The miná common Acridotheres
tristis and the miná of the mounts, Gracula religious, they are
The knownest. The first one was found originariamente
only in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Indochina,
but al the same as the gorriones and estorninos, has it him
introduced with success in many other countries: Malaya,
Natal, Australia, Hawai, Seychelles, New Zealand and other
Islands. Is somewhat greater that the
Starling
, with the head and the
black neck, the brown body, and you split them drops of the
White body. The peak, legs, and some parts of skin naked in the face they are yellow, and in the flight shows some
typical white zones in the wings and in the tip of the queue.
The minás are very acquaintances wherever that are, because
They live in association with the man and they do a great deal of noise. Themselves
they see commonly in the highways again Zealand, as in the dry hills of the India. They are fed of fruits and
insects, what does them unpopular with the fruticultores,
although certainly it is accused them of a part of the damages
caused by other fowls less visible. In autumn and
winter, the minás they return at night to their places of
meeting comunitana, as they do the
Starlings
, but to
difference of them are fowls very territorials. Each member
of a couple can be found in its territory the biggest
Part of the year. The song consists of a variety of rauncous
sounds with vibrant notes and other silbantes, some of which they are enough melodiosos. The nest is a
disorderly cup, placed in a hole, in a tree or in a building, where puts from 4 to 7 pale blue eggs of color.
The incubation hard some 15 days, and the youths pass another
so much in the nest before being totally emplumados. The
miná of the mounts or gracula, is knowner as fowl of
cage, and is perhaps the best imitator of voices. Is similar to
the common species, but has more prominent caruncles
yellow aimingbackwards, since behind
The eyes. Their natural habitat are the forests of the India,
Ceylán, Pakistan, Birmania, the Malayan peninsula and
Indonesian, where lives in noisy flocks, in the cup of
The trees. They say that is fed of insects, fruits and berries, with néctar in the season. Although they are excellent
imitators in captivity, in the free life not they seem
to be interested in imitating other sounds, but on the other hand they have
A fantastic and noisy own vocabulary. They situate the nest
in a hole of a tree and it put consists of 2 ó 3
green-azure eggs, with dark brown spots.
The
Starling
Family
of more than 100 species of fowls cantoras of medium size,
that in general they have thin peaks, an enough position erect and smooth plumaje, often of brilliant tones. Itself
they find originally only in the old world but
some species have been introduced in other loaves of bread and they have
finished being agreed in you plague. The typical Starling
they have the thin peaks and erectos and when they are fed in
the soil, among plants or leaves, they introduce the peak closed
among the leaves or the vegetation, and they open it doing a
open hole if there is food al discovered. The eyes so
advanced they give to the Starling their characteristic appearance. The species of the kind Sturnus have
fine feathers in the head and neck, temperately colored
of blue, black, brown, and rare pink times with some
Iridiscencia of darker tones. In their diet they are mainly terrestrial, and they walk and they run with facility.
Their flight is quick and direct, with a constant one to beat of
wings. During the flight, the relative equality of proportions
of the wings batientes with the surface of the head, body
and short queue gives to these birds the appearance of a
Star of four tips. After the season of raises
they tend to be gathered in flocks to be fed, flocks
that they can reach a great number, that move in quick
and coordinated maneuvers, and that when themselves posan, they are able
to do it in such quantity upon each branch that they are many the
that they break under their weight, ocasionando damages al
wooded.
Also they are seen evolucionar in the center of some cities
For posarse in the tops of the buildings. The food of
the estorninos consists of insects and invertebrateds, fruits,
Some seeds, and green loaves of bread of plants. The
Starling common Sturnus vulgaris has been introduced in
EE.UU. and this of Australia, and has been established for itself
Alone and extended in both continents. The estornino rose S. roseus,
is a bird of the estepas Asian, and the same as
other species in those regions, they can show periodically
large growths of number, while in
unfavorable circumstances extend in other areas empty, and they appear including in the Oeste of Europe. The minás
Asian, small brown or gray species of the kind Acridotheres
or the greater and more brilliantly feather species
of Gracula, they are of stronger body and peak more
large, of more generalized diet. They tend to have
crests in the head, naked skin around the eyes, and ears yellow to both sides of the head. The
Starlings do bulky nests and little elaborate. The ones that
they build in the trees are normally structures rounded, with a lateral hole of entrance. Rarely
they take the open form of cup. If they find a hole
Natural they do the nest in form of cup inside him.
Some African species, as the Spreo superbus they are able
to use nests abandoned of other species. The Starling common,
that it utilizes holes in the trees or buildings, is able
to use it during all a year and with the successive you raise goes
accumulating materials in abundance. This species
occasionally it nests also in bushes and among the climbing in the walls of the houses.
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