Author: aubrieeklein

To explain the environment of my bird, I am going to answer questions 4 and 5:

4. In what part of the world can we find your animal?

The Hill Mynah can be found in several parts of Asia. I learned that there are different types of the bird in each region.

Here is a map of where the different types are located. The creator of this image deserves credit for sharing it openly with all of us. He/she is L. Shyamal – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8366313

It is such a cool map!

 

5. Describe your animals habitat.

I found a website that describes the Hill Mynah habit very well. This is what it says on the site What, When, How.

The hill mynah is found in the lush tropical woodlands and forests of Southeast Asia. It descends from the canopy only occasionally and avoids the densest jungle, preferring clearings or areas of forest edge.The mynah also visits plantations and other cultivated areas around villages, and is often seen near streams or pools, where it bathes daily to clean sticky fruit juices from its plumage.

In my mind, when its not in the jungle it’s habitat is on a persons leg or cage because it is such a good talking  animal.

 

To learn about the actions of  my Asian vertebrae, I first did some research on the Internet to be able to answer the assigned questions. These were the sites I read to learn about my bird:

http://what-when-how.com/birds/hill-mynah-birds/

http://eol.org/pages/922307/details

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/commonhillmynas.html

https://observation.org/soort/info/76441bmm

3.What two things might your animal do?

1. It will talk but it is best at mimicking other humans, animals voices, noises and often can whistle a loud shrill. It also makes other calls.
2. It is a very well adapted bird.  It can survive in lots of environments including cities and the jungle.

8.What sound does your animal make?

I think the Mynah talks quite well. If I compare it to the notes on my guitar, it can talk low and high. I have watched lots of videos and in each one it seems to have different sounds. So I read more about it and found this description on Wikipedia:

Whistles, wails, screeches, and gurgles, sometimes melodious and often very human-like in quality. Each individual has a repertoire between 3 and 13 such call types, which may be shared with some near neighbours of the same sex, being learned when young. There is a very rapid change of dialect with distance, such that birds living more than 15 km apart have no call-types in common with one another.

Even though all Hill Mynahs are capable of human speech, some are better than others. Some are able to talk with the same tones and clarity of speech as the human voice they mimic. The Hill Mynah has been described as the best talking bird in the world, indeed the champion of mimics!

9.Describe your animal using 5 adjectives

An adjective describes a noun. The Hill Mynah is:

• Smart – because it can learn to mimic the sounds of others and most birds can’t do that. In fact, it is one of the top 10 smartest birds on earth
• Silly – because you can teach it to say silly things that the human says
• Loud – this is not a quiet, peaceful singing bird
• Small – a Mynah is not big or a carnivore
• Unique – because birds of the same kind living more than 15km apart sing differently

10.If your animal could talk, what would it say? 

My favorite part about my asian vertebrate is that that it can answer this question by itself. Look at the video 😃👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🐣!

Hey this is my assignment but it was not organized very well .

So I created a mind  map.

A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. Just as in every great idea, its power lies in its simplicity.

Here is my mind map new way of creating my project:

 

My next 5 posts will be about the 5 categories to understand the parrot more.

 

 

I am going to explore 5 birds than choose my favorite.

I am putting these pictures by using their internet post office address.This is called a universal resource locator. A url. it is a long address.

I like the Asian Emerald Cuckoo.

I like  Japanese Cranes because they are the coolest birds in Asia. I think I will choose this for my project.

I like the  Asian Fairy Blue bird because it is blue!

But what if I did  a talking Asian Parrot!

https://youtu.be/scPKFNOlZvU

First I am going to choose a bird, probably because a lot of people are choosing fish.

I am going  to find pictures of birds that I like before choosing which bird to do from Asia for my report. I am going to use Google photos to do this: https://images.google.com