Friday, September 17, 2010

Mutant Mynah Bird


A little over a month ago, Galspanic and I were driving near the intersection of Kapiolani and McCully, when we spotted this Mynah bird with a ridiculously long beak. I have no idea if this is a standard variation of the Mynah's beak or what. The Common Mynah was introduced to Hawaii to control sugar cane pests, including armyworms and cutworms. A beak like this might be kind of useful for that, but I've never seen any Hawaii Mynah birds sporting a specialization like this.


1 comment:

Galspanic said...

I remember we were wondering aloud if this bird had had undergone some sort of prosthesis surgery.