Goanetters annual year-end meet is on Dec 27, 2010 (Monday) from 4-6 pm at Institute Piedade (near Hotel Mandovi, opp Bread & More) in Panjim. Do come along. RSVP via SMS 9822122436, [email protected] or 2409490 (after 2 pm).
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/files/images/natural-resources/Indian_Myna_Bird.jpg We call this bird ‘Sallolli’ or ‘Sallori’ There are two types found in Goa. The one which is pictured (see link below) we called ‘Voklam Sallolli' Meaning Sallori with specs (glasses) Like parrots, these birds talks too (when tamed/ caged), but may not be as fluent as parrots. While talking or while attempting to talk, the area around their necks swells or inflates as if they do it with great difficulty. I know a household who had one for many years (they had two). It could utter words like ‘poder ponk ponk’ so fluently that the inmates often mistook it for their morning poder/baker at their doorsteps They used to feed them with live grasshoppers (Toll), bread crumbs etc Sallolli often lays eggs at the tip/top of a dead coconut trees in a hole, as kids, we used to climb such trees. At the same time we were too scared to go near it’s nest (hole) as we were told snake/Cobra etc also resides around it’s nest (never found one though). (similarly, woodpeckers (Paddekar), owls (gugum), Kingfishers (kirkiro) etc also lay their eggs, often more than one nests / holes found in the same tree) At night they live in the trees in a large group. The area if often noisy until they go to sleep Check this pic (not come out good but they are all sallori or Maina or myna) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk17/3260099968/ These are other type (not with specs) this one opens it's mouth / beak in this pic http://myna.ws/images/birds/myna.gif Quote: [Goanet] Indian ??? Bird. eric pinto ericpinto2 at yahoo.com Thu Dec 23 05:34:53 PST 2010 ________________________________________ It belongs to the very common starling family, the original habitat stretches from the Kazakh plains to China. They adapt and survive, much like the Homo species that is found in the frozen desolation of Siberia , as well as in the blazing deserts of Australia. An eccentric New Yorker sailed back from London with a hundred of their starlings in 1890. Today, a 'cloud' of them, the monicker because they block out the sun, can number a hundred thousand, and clean out a ton of Idaho potatoes in one sitting. ________________________________ From: Gabriel de Figueiredo <g Talking of birds and Indians (or non-Indians), check this out. The Indian Myna — pushy and invasive http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/04/08/2044900.htm > [email protected] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc
