Beyond the sandy beaches and shimmering lagoons of the Cook Islands, there is a jungle war being fought. The location is Atiu, the third-largest of the Cooks' 15 islands. Its original name is Enuamanu ...

Aliens do well around other aliens, according to new research that suggests that invasive bird species such as the common myna are more likely to thrive if there are other introduced species in the ...

COMMON mynas are like an avian version of the dreaded cane toad — ugly, unwanted and with an insatiable appetite for total domination. But now Australian scientists are leading the fightback.

A strain of the disease responsible for killing nearly two thirds of the UK's greenfinch population has spread to myna birds in Pakistan. In 2011, the disease was discovered to have reached European ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE myna bird is proving a major problem for native birds, with research showing the introduced species is squeezing out some of ...

The common myna has long been a looming threat to native bird life in Australia since its introduction to Canberra in the 1960s. Invading and rapidly destroying native nests, the myna is dominating ...

Morphometric variation in samples of common mynas from 11 localities in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Hawaii was analyzed with principal component analysis. We attempt to avoid two shortcomings in ...

BirdLife Zimbabwe cautions that the Common (or Indian) Myna has well and truly arrived in Zimbabwe and is set to become a serious alien invader, posing a threat to some indigenous bird species. Sad to ...

The common mynah proves a inviolable law of life — there would always be someone waiting in the wings to purloin what one holds dear; or, at least, cause that perception. A resident bird in Chennai, ...

A rude myna bird has been put in solitary confinement at a zoo after shouting 'f*** you' at visitors. The bird had been trained to welcome people to Jiufeng Forest Zoo in Wuhan, central China, but ...