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The Bali Starling, Leucopsar rothschildi also known as Rothschild’s Mynah, Bali Myna or Bali Mynah is a medium-sized, up to 25cm long, stocky myna, almost wholly white with a long, drooping crest, and black tips on the wings and tail. The bird has blue bare skin around the eyes, greyish legs and a yellow bill. Both sexes are similar. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 360 × 480 pixelsFull resolution (360 × 480 pixel, file size: 30 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Bali Starling - Source: own work - Location: Bronx Zoo, New York - Author: self, User:Stavenn File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ...
Genera Aplonis Poeoptera Grafisia Onychognathus Lamprotornis Aplonis Aplonis Cinnyricinclus Speculipastor Neochicla Spreo Cosmoparus Sarroglossa Creatophora Fregilupus (extinct) Sturnus Leucopsar Basilornis Streptocitta Sarcops Scissirostrum See also Myna, Oxpecker Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae. ...
Erwin Stresemann (November 22, 1889 - November 20, 1972) was a German ornithologist. ...
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Erwin Stresemann (November 22, 1889 - November 20, 1972) was a German ornithologist. ...
† See also Starling, Oxpecker The mynas are part of the family Sturndidae, along with the starlings and oxpeckers. ...
The beak—otherwise known as the bill or rostrum—is an external anatomical structure which serves as the mouth in some animals. ...
The Bali Starling is distributed and endemic to the island of Bali in Indonesia, where it is the island's only surviving endemic species. This rare bird was discovered in 1910. The other Bali's endemic, the Bali Tiger, was declared extinct in 1937. This article is a parent page for a series of articles providing information about endemism among birds in the Worlds various zoogeographic zones. ...
Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. ...
Trinomial name Panthera tigris balica (Schwarz, 1912) The Bali tiger (Panthera tigris balica), also called the Balinese tiger, is an extinct subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali. ...
The scientific name commemorates the British ornithologist Lord Rothschild, who described the bird in 1912. Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ...
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 - August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. ...
In 1991, the Bali Starling was designated the fauna symbol of Bali.
The Bali Starling is critically endangered, hovering immediately above extinction in the wild for several years now (BirdLife International 2006). The last stronghold of the species is at Bali Barat National Park. About 1,000 individuals are believed to survive in captivity. In fact, the Bali Starling is so much in danger that many parks have been set up just for the Bali Starling's survival. Its decline towards extinction has been caused by the urbanization of the island and by illegal trapping for the caged-bird trade. The Bali Starling is listed in Appendix I of CITES. The Siberian Tiger, a subspecies of tiger. ...
In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ...
Bali Barat National Park is located on the north western side of Bali, Indonesia. ...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement between Governments, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). ...
Gallery Bristol Zoo, England ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1118, 746 KB) Bali Starling in the aviary at Bristol Zoo, Bristol, England. ...
Bristol Zoo is a major UK tourist attraction in the city of Bristol in Southwest England. ...
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The Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens is a zoo in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. ...
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References - BirdLife International (2006). Leucopsar rothschildi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a justification of why this species is critically endangered and the criteria used
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