The widely distributed common hill myna is the one most frequently seen in aviculture.

Some species have become well known for their imitative skills; the Common Hill Myna is one of these.

The common hill myna is often detected by its loud, shrill, descending whistles followed by other calls.

The villagers are thus able to extract the young at the proper time for easy hand-rearing, making common hill myna farming a profitable, small-scale cottage industry.

In aviculture, this often refers to the Common Hill Myna (G. religiosa) specifically.

On a worldwide scale, the IUCN thus considers the common hill myna a Species of Least Concern.

With the southern, Nias and Enggano hill mynas as separate species, the common hill myna, Gracula religiosa, has seven or eight subspecies which differ only slightly.

In 1992, Thailand had the common hill myna put on CITES Appendix III, to safeguard its stocks against collapsing.

Traditionally, the Sri Lanka Hill Myna was considered a subspecies of the Common Hill Myna, but today all major authorities recognise them as separate.

Comparably, the Enggano, Nias and Southern Hill Mynas have traditionally been treated as subspecies of the Common Hill Myna; a treatment still preferred by some authorities.

The common hill myna (Gracula religiosa), sometimes spelled "mynah" and formerly simply known as hill myna, is the myna bird most commonly seen in aviculture, where it is often simply referred to by the latter two names.

This genus has representatives in tropical southern Asia from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, and the Common Hill Myna, a popular cage bird, has been introduced to the USA.

S. kirmsei - hill mynah (Gracula religiosa)

The White-vented Myna has an extremely liquid voice and, like the European starling, incorporates imitation into its repertoire (though it is not able to imitate the human voice, like the Hill Myna Gracula religiosa).

The common hill myna (Gracula religiosa), sometimes spelled "mynah" and formerly simply known as hill myna, is the myna bird most commonly seen in aviculture, where it is often simply referred to by the latter two names.

Birds that can imitate humans, such as the Indian Hill myna (Gracula religiosa), imitate human speech by mimicking the various speech formants, created by changing the shape of the human vocal tract, with different vibration frequencies of its internal tympaniform membrane.