In 1865, a physician brought Indian mynas to Hawaii to eat armyworms; the birds spread and can compete with native birds for nesting sites
A bird built for city life As it turned out, mynas could do more than just eat caterpillars. In a 1933 description posted on the university’s page, E. L. Caum, an ornithologist, wrote that the bird also eats house scraps, fruits, grains, insects, and grubs. Its diverse diet seems to make it easy for the … Read more