Oh, my Mynah..

These are the angry looking, Asia's native birds - Common Mynah. However, the birds in the image above may not be that common after all. While trying to identify these birds, I found out that it is visually impossible to distinguish between a Male Mynah and a female Mynah.

If you look at the images of "Common Mynah" online, the search results will bring up the images of Mynahs that have a yellow spot around their eyes, which is completely missing in the birds in the above pic. After spending several minutes on trying to confirm if these were a different species of birds, I ended up finding one other link online that described these birds as "Common Mynah". These probably are a sub-species of the common ones, but I'm not certain of it.

STORY:
On my recent trek to "Nishani BeTTa", Coorg, we had to stop at one other location near to the destination; a small village, where I found these playful little angry looking birds. At the time of clicking their images, I did not know which species these birds belonged to, until now. They were restless, and hyper active, but I don't think I heard their call.

These territorial birds that are extremely well adapted to urban environments are known to perfectly mimic human speech, which I find fascinating!