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Acridotheres grandis · Family Sturnidae

Acridotheres grandis

Family Sturnidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Sturnidae
GBIF occurrence records
128,621
Countries and territories with records
18
Great Myna
Charles J. Sharp · Great myna (Acridotheres grandis) Prek Toal.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 128,621 occurrence records from 18 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Thailand (78.2%), India (9.2%), Cambodia (6.3%) and Laos (2%); together they account for 95.7% of the total. In Thailand, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Acridotheres grandis combines the genus name Acridotheres with the species epithet grandis. The Warbla app catalog lists 10 species of the genus Acridotheres; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Acridotheres tristis, Acridotheres javanicus and Acridotheres fuscus.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 110 species of the family Sturnidae. This species ranks 17th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Sturnus vulgaris. Its record count is 37.7% of the family average (340,966). The family Sturnidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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