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A few agitated myna birds chirp from their perches on palm trees that have been singed into matchsticks, the carcasses of other birds and several cats scattered below them in the streets.

Branches splay out widely and become roosting places for choirs of myna birds.

Villagers get assistance in obtaining permits to breed Bali mynas there.

He didn’t give a myna’s hoot if his social conscience was out of date — he delighted in being on the far side of conservatism, leaking prejudice.

Ellington was famous for using street sounds in his music: car horns, church moans, train whistles, even a myna bird that he heard singing outside a hotel on tour in the Middle East.