This is really interesting actually! Because actually the såli and the bird you speak of are different birds, but with Guahan's drastic change in their birds, some birds here are referred to differently than what our ancestors knew them as. Såli is the Micronesian starling.
Ahh I see. I wonder what the range of the drongos are because as far as I remember I don't think I ever saw them on Saipan. I see the starling commonly so to me that was the only såli. They also said that the starling is the actual såli in my Island Ecology class.
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The black drongo was actually introduced to Rota from Taiwan post-WW2, where it was able to fly to Guahan from there so it was introduced here as well. It may have been introduced to Saipan by now maybe, but perhaps this is where we diverge in opinion. I don't consider it a såli.
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