Bali myna

How it was counted

As Squires and others put it in Oryx, "Bali Barat National Park staff conduct a standardized survey to estimate numbers of Bali mynas each year". The figure is for wild birds inside the park and leaves out the smaller populations on Nusa Penida and at Bali Safari Park, which sit outside the recorded range.

This is an estimate published with no range, so read it as about 420 birds rather than exactly 420.

Earlier figures

• 15 in 2012: the previous count. Source: Squires et al. 2023, Oryx 58(3): 367-377 (Bali Barat National Park annual count data).

What moves it

Squires and others (Oryx) name trapping for trade, long and heavy, as a pressure on the Bali myna, and give habitat loss as the assumed cause of its earlier contraction.

• trapping for trade. has long suffered heavy trapping Source: Squires et al. 2023, Oryx 58(3): 367-377 (Bali Barat National Park annual count data).
• habitat loss, the assumed cause of its contraction in the first half of the 20th century. habitat loss in the first half of the 20th century and trapping for trade in the second half Source: Squires et al. 2023, Oryx 58(3): 367-377 (Bali Barat National Park annual count data).

Who is helping

The Bali Barat National Park authority moved releases and nest boxes from the bird's last refuge to farmland and other land dominated by people along the main road through the park, a change Squires and others link to the recent increase. Asosiasi Pelestari Curik Bali (the Bali Myna Conservation Association), with the park's breeding facility, loans captive birds to local communities for commercial breeding, to bring down market prices and the pull to poach.

The next count

The survey is annual (September to October roost count); no release date for the next figure is known as of 12 November 2026.

Sources

• Squires et al. 2023, Oryx 58(3): 367-377 (Bali Barat National Park annual count data) Last checked 12 November 2026.

What changed

• 12 November 2026 Added to Live Species, on the wall (1,000 or fewer): About 420 (Estimate, no range, October 2021).

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