Title: Mynas
Artist: Robert Zhao Renhui / The Institute of Critical Zoologists / www.criticalzoologists.org
Additional contributor: Adeline Chia
Designer: H55 / Singapore
Editor: Adeline Chia
Imprint: Self-published / www.criticalzoologists.org/mynas
Printer: AlsOdoMinie / Singapore
Publication date and place: March, 2016 / Singapore
Edition: 400
Format, binding: Soft Cover with wrap around / section sewn
Size: 23cm x 30cm x 0.9cmNumber of pages and images: 22 images / 104 pages
Type of printing and paper: Offset, Prima Ace White
Retail price: £25
Book Description: At 7pm every day, thousands of Javan Mynas descend onto trees along Orchard Road, a major shopping and tourist district in Singapore. They have been the bane of retailers and shoppers for the past few years, dirtying pavements with their droppings and emitting a ferocious noise with their collective squawking. Great congregations of Javan Mynas are not uncommon in Singapore. A colonising species, the Indonesian bird was first introduced to Singapore as pets in the 1920s. Now they have out-competed its larger relative, the Common Myna, to became the most common bird in Singapore. I spent a month in a tree trying to photograph these birds.
Book Soundtrack: Cocteau Twins / Lazy Calm
- Title: The Institute of Critical Zoologists