For those who were concerned with the state of Snippy, (the little bird I found a few weeks ago): Well he (or she) made it, she can now fly and her favorite landing area is on people's heads as you can see in the picture:
It turns our this is a bird called Blackbird, or in professional terminology: Turdus merula (they are usually black with yellow / orange beeks, so ours may either be a female or not still in its final colors. In case you ever find one of those and want to save it, it's not too complicated, just give it wet dog food, boiled egg and fruit. What's next? We don't know, I hope we can release her soon. It's the noisiest bird I have ever heard. We'll stick to the graphic Snippy :).
Yaa now I can recognize the bird from slant colour near it's eye... Not only it is noisiest bird, it is bird with one of the best mimicking abilities... As you must have noticed that it'll try to copy and chirp like phones, car horns, radio tunes, etc...
I assume you must have noticed that it is one of the most messiest bird too, at times beating pigeons at their own game...
Posted by: Gaurav | July 25, 2006 at 01:08 PM
i can not see it good.
is there another pic.
thanks
Posted by: brokensoft | October 09, 2006 at 04:33 PM
yeah! we call this 'mynaa' in south india. quiet a noisy guy...and as Gaurav has mentioned... known for his mimic skills
Posted by: Krishna | October 11, 2006 at 08:25 AM