Common Mynah

[Richard Stern]

We saw these all over the place on our recent trip to N.W.India. This one was strolling around the sidewalk feeding on garbage scraps.

D300, 80-400VR, hand-held, ISO200, 1/40, f/9.0, no flash.

Richard

[Fabs Forns]

There is somehting weird going on in the face, maybe too much sharpening?
I think they are very pretty birds. I may tone down the greens.

[Arthur Morris]

Agree with Fabs about the strange quality of the face.... Rest of the bird looks great. Would prefer a BKGR other than sidewalk :)

[Tony Whitehead]

Agree on over-sharpening causing issues especially with the eye and face. I would have gone with ISO 400 and opened the aperture to get a bit more SS and blur out the BG a bit more. I agree that they are attractive birds - very smart and wary in my experience of them in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

[Lance Peters]

And a pest in Australia - They are a introduced species and aggressively expanding their range - Some towns were they have not yet established themselves are very active in quickly removing any that try to get established - very detrimental to our native species.

Agree with the above comments :)