Learn About Hill Mynah Bird - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Learn About Hill Mynah Bird This is a very unique bird, this is a Greater Indian Helm Mynah Bird and back in the 60s and 70s I remember being a kid and going into pet stores or dime stores and you'd always see a mynah bird and they'd talk up a storm. Um but you don't see them very often any more. As a matter of fact this is only about the second one I've sold over the last ten years of doing this. They are amazing amazing talkers. Uh they talk up a blue streak. This little guy is only two and a half months old, so he's not quite talking yet. They are fruit eaters, and their diet is strictly fruits and pellet diet, so their poops can be pretty messy. This bird is not a parrot, it's actually a passerine bird, a soft billed bird, so one of the nice things about them is they don't really bite, they just peck if they're really excited or upset about something. They love shiny things, people always think of a raven going after shiny coins and stuff like that. Cadillac here is the same way. He loves to play with bells and chains and anything shiny. He also loves to go into things, so he's got a little tent in his cage that he likes to go in and sit. They are so difficult to find. I only know of about two babies of these guys for sale in the entire country. Although there maybe more, but on the internet there's only about two. They, I believe when they stopped importing them several years ago, people tried to breed them, they realized they were pretty difficult to breed. So uh, so there just isn't a whole lot of breeding stock out there. I was pretty excited when I found out he was available and we could get him. The mynah birds talk right up there with the African Greys in terms of how clear their speech is and how many different things they say. So you gotta be very careful not to say anything crazy around them. Because they will pick things up really really quickly.
