Did I just pick the easiest to keep, genius bird as my first bird?

I was toying with the idea of getting a bird for about a year I was mainly looking at small parrots but kept being put off.

I moved to China and didn't think about it for a while.

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But 3 days ago I was at a bird and flower market which are a combination of market that are quite popular here. And saw a lot of people selling birds they called 八哥 or Myna in English. These birds are very popular in China, are native to the area, and are really easy for breeders to breed a lot of them. So they sell for about $5 for a fledgling. They're also famous for the ability to speak so well they can even perfectly pronounce Chinese sentences, including getting the tones correct.

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When I got it home I put some newspaper down on my coffee table and took it out of the cage. It would just run to my hands chirping even though it had known me about 10 minutes. I hand fed it because it hadn't worked out how to feed itself yet since the breeder would always use a syringe to feed it through the cage bars.

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On day 2 it had worked out how to feed itself from a bowl and figured out it could make short flighted hops, despite this it never tried to get away from me and would just sit on the coffee table being happy.

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Now it's day 3 and I decided to teach it how to "step up" onto my hand. I checked out some guides online and the guides are like "how to get your bird to not hate you" for the first few steps "It may take several weeks to be able to put your hand near the bird without it freaking out". But this bird had no issues with my hand since day 1. After 20 minutes of encouraging it to step onto my hand with food. It will now step up onto my hand with a command. Something which is supposed to take a parrot weeks to learn. And totally inverse to it hating me and wanting to get away it will demand attention and fly onto my head or shoulder if I ignore it while it's out of the cage. It's also yet to shit on me or any of my furniture, so far every time it wanted to go to the bathroom it will fly back to the coffee table and go on the newspaper, something it wasn't trained to do.

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So does anyone else who have experience with these birds know if they're just like this? And much better behaved and smarter than parrots?

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