Myna Bird Life

If your bird is now chatting and responding to you during the daily routine (start here if you’re new to teaching your bird to talk) then you can move on to new words and phrases. Start with the simple words and then build up to the phrases. By adding a word one at a time you can teach a myna bird an extensive vocabulary. They prefer a good rhythm to the phrase of about 5-6 syllables. Always say it in a bright and light voice and in the same way to be consistent. Try recording your training word on your …

Many birds can be trained to speak, and some will even begin doing so on their own as they hear their owners speak. Think of training a bird to speak as a fun, bonding adventure with your pet. Stay positive, and do not stress out the animal.  Also, keep in mind that certain birds may be easier to train than others, like mynah birds, of which the Greater Indian Hill Myna is the best ( gracula religiosa intermedia). Myna Birds have the clearest diction of any breed and the ability to have an incredibly large vocabulary.  With a little patience and …

Mynah birds are omnivorous. They would naturally eat a huge variety of fruits, insects, larva, amphibians, lizards, small snakes, eggs, baby birds, baby rodents and scavenge for garbage occasionally. They are not seedeaters. A large variety of diced fruits and some vegetables can be offered to your myna bird. Their diet should contain 60% pellets, 30% fruits with about 10% of the diet being vegetables. Mynah birds do not have a crop to store food. In fact they have a very short digestive tract, which makes for a very quick transit time. This means your mynah bird will eat constantly …

What is it that enables your Myna bird to learn to speak more than 100 words and utter as many as 30 sentences?  Lingual articulation is one method of altering the resonance properties of the vocal tract in animals.  A myna bird can move their tongue around their mouth and shift frequencies to make human-like vowel sounds (Klatt and Stefanski, 1974). The ability of myna birds and parrots to modify formants (a prominent band of frequency that determines the phonetic quality of a vowel) contributes to a mynah bird’s ability to imitate human speech. We used to think that a bird’s vocalisation …