First confirmed record of Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus from Iran with previous reports from the Tehran urban environment

摘要

The Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus resembles the Common Myna A. tristis, but differs in having an orange-red orbital patch, a slate-grey body, rusty-buff at the base of the primaries and at the tip of the tail, and a rusty-buff vent. It occurs in the Indian subcontinent from Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal through India west to Sind in Pakistan and is known to undertake some local migrations (Ali 2002). There is an old record of the species in southeastern Afghanistan (ORL 2017). It is not a native species in the Middle East, and the breeding populations in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are believed to have originated from escaped cage-birds (Porter & Aspinall 2010). This species has also been reported from Kuwait, Qatar and Oman (ORL 2017)