I like the way you gave each bird its own little personality, especially the "hellstarlings" waging war against the monastery. The way you described the pigeons made me laugh a little lol. Also, looking forward to that cat post
😀 Thank you! I knew nothing about Thai birds until 2023. And as it turned out, birds are fun here.
Some have remarkable voices - you hear them every time you are in Thailand, you know these voices well but you have no idea what the hell it is until you start learning birding.
Other birds are quite wide-spread and don't hide but you don't know they even exist until you start looking at the top of trees.
Other birds are so smart that you can communicate to them like with a cat or a dog (raven-looking Thai crows, and common mynas too).
Some birds are like precious stones and others make you smile. So... Love birding here, it has enriched my perception of Southeast Asia.
Common myna talking (not my video):
I know we have birds everywhere but I've got to go to Thailand to really see the diversity. Woah man was that bird actually talking 😱😱
Moreover, common myna is recognized as one of the top100 invasive species - they conquer more and more territories... In Uzbekistan, they tried to kill all mynas (for being a pest and invasive species) but failed and gave up.
was that bird actually talking
Yup, because common myna belong to the family of starlings - they all have good ability to mimic speech. Including common starlings living in Europe and America:
If a bird species rules the Earth after humans kill each other, it could be common mynas or common starlings. Large parrots are smarter but they are less adaptive so they don't have that large evolution potential. If starlings/mynas become a civilization, they'll have parrots as pets, like people have gorillas in zoos.