Crested Myna
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[Photo] Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus). Date: 20 May 2004. Photo by Charles Lam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kclama)

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sturnidae
Genus: Acridotheres
Species: Acridotheres cristatellus (Linnaeus, 1766)

The Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus) is a kind of bird native to southeastern China and Indochina.

Around 1890, the Crested Myna was introduced into the Vancouver region of British Columbia. It was initially successful, reaching a population in the thousands, without spreading far from the Lower Mainland. By the mid-twentieth century, numbers began declining, and the bird is now extremely rare in North America.

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