The Bank Myna is a stocky, gregarious starling measuring 20–22 cm, readily separated from the familiar Common Myna by its bluish-grey plumage and bare, brick-red to deep-orange eye-skin. It features a glossy black forehead crest, crown, and sides of the neck, contrasting neatly with soft slate-grey upperparts and pale vinous-pink to buffy-grey underparts. In flight, it reveals striking deep rufous-buff wing patches and tail tips rather than white. Highly social and colonial, it frequents cultivated plains, river margins, livestock paddocks, and open brick kilns, often nesting colonially in burrows excavated into earth embankments or earthen river bluffs. In Himachal Pradesh, it occurs as an uncommon to locally common resident and wanderer along the lower Shivalik belt, broad river valleys, and southern agricultural margins up to about 800 meters elevation.