Date: 4/21/25 6:38 am From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Common Myna at Greenway Park in Graham, N.C.
Jihn,
It looks like you, if not someone else, has recently marked the "Organism
is wild" with a red X, which is what we want to see.
I am not aware of any other NC records. Even if there were, including now
this obvious one, it certainly isn't wild, and no way to know if it was a
local escape (I presume they are kept as cage birds owing to their
mimicking ability) or a remote chance of a stray from the Florida
population. I don't know if the NC Bird Records Committee would want or
need to vote on this, but that's always on the table.
The NC bird list does include Monk Parakeet on its Not Established List, as
there were some breeding pairs or colonies in the past, though still very
rare; these were presumed birds from the Florida population; it is native
to Argentina and southern Brazil, mainly. The Common Myna is native to
southern Asia.
Harry LeGrand
Raleigh
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM "Polo, John" <carolinabirds...> wrote:
