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Taxonomic source(s)
AERC TAC. 2003. AERC TAC Checklist of bird taxa occurring in Western Palearctic region, 15th Draft. Available at: http://www.aerc.eu/DOCS/Bird_taxa_of_the_WP15.xls.
Christidis, L. and Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia.
Cramp, S. and Simmons, K.E.L. (eds). 1977-1994. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The birds of the western Palearctic. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Turbott, E.G. 1990. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Wellington.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
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Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	low
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	18,000,000 km2	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	increasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	3.9 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as common (Feare and Craig 1998), while national population sizes have been estimated at c.10,000-100,000 introduced breeding pairs in Taiwan and c.100-10,000 introduced breeding pairs in Japan (Brazil 2009).

Trend justification: The population is suspected to be increasing as ongoing habitat degradation is creating new areas of suitable habitat.

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident	Breeding visitor	Non-breeding visitor	Passage migrant
Afghanistan	extant	native	yes
Australia	extant	introduced		yes
Bahrain	extant	introduced	yes
Bangladesh	extant	native	yes
Bhutan	extant	native	yes
British Indian Ocean Territory	extant	introduced	yes
Brunei	extant	introduced	yes
Cambodia	extant	native	yes
China (mainland)	extant	native	yes
Comoros	extant	introduced	yes
Cook Islands	extant	introduced	yes
Egypt	extant	introduced	yes
Fiji	extant	introduced	yes
Hong Kong (China)	extant	introduced	yes
India	extant	native	yes
Indonesia	extant	introduced		yes
Iran, Islamic Republic of	extant	native	yes
Iraq	extant	introduced	yes
Kazakhstan	extant	native		yes
Kiribati	extant	introduced	yes
Kuwait	extant	introduced	yes
Kyrgyzstan	extant	introduced		yes
Laos	extant	native	yes
Lebanon	extant	uncertain
Madagascar	extant	introduced	yes
Malaysia	extant	native	yes
Maldives	extant	introduced		yes
Mauritius	extant	introduced	yes
Myanmar	extant	native	yes
Nepal	extant	native	yes
New Caledonia (to France)	extant	introduced		yes
New Zealand	extant	introduced	yes
Oman	extant	introduced	yes
Pakistan	extant	native	yes
Qatar	extant	introduced	yes
Réunion (to France)	extant	introduced	yes
Russia	extant	vagrant			yes
Russia (Central Asian)	extant	vagrant			yes
Russia (European)	extant	vagrant			yes
Samoa	extant	introduced	yes
Saudi Arabia	extant	introduced	yes
Seychelles	extant	introduced	yes
Singapore	extant	native		yes
Solomon Islands	extant	introduced		yes
South Africa	extant	introduced	yes
Sri Lanka	extant	native	yes
St Helena (to UK)	extant	introduced		yes
Tajikistan	extant	introduced		yes
Thailand	extant	native	yes
Tonga	extant	introduced	yes
Türkiye	extant	introduced		yes
Turkmenistan	extant	introduced	yes
United Arab Emirates	extant	introduced	yes
USA	extant	introduced	yes
Uzbekistan	extant	introduced	yes
Vanuatu	extant	introduced		yes
Vietnam	extant	native	yes
Zimbabwe	extant	introduced	yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Pastureland	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Urban Areas	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level	suitable	resident
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	resident
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded	suitable	resident
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Purpose	Scale
Food - human	subsistence, national
Pets/display animals, horticulture	international

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Common Myna Acridotheres tristis. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/common-myna-acridotheres-tristis on 22/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/12/2024.