Hill Mynah breeding success at Paradise Park Wildlife Sanctuary in Hayle, Cornwall.

They have a lot of character and are sturdy good-looking birds. People of a certain age might remember that Mynahs were often kept as pets in the 70s and 80s and could learn a wide range of words, whistles and calls. Sadly, these were almost always caught in the wild and imported, very few were bred in the UK. Ours don’t talk but you can hear their very distinctive natural call.