Date: 4/21/25 8:03 am From: \Polo, John\ (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Common Myna at Greenway Park in Graham, N.C.
Hi, Harry.
Yes, I marked not wild, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something. It looks like the other iNat users who affirmed the bird's ID were unconcerned with, or unaware of, the wild attribute for the observation. Thanks for the confirmation.
Cheers,
John
Raleigh
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From: Harry LeGrand <hlegrandjr...>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2025 9:37 AM
To: Polo, John <polo...>
Cc: <carolinabirds...> <carolinabirds...>
Subject: Re: Common Myna at Greenway Park in Graham, N.C.
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.
Do Common Mynas occasionally show up in N.C. and I'm just not aware of this? I've only lived in the Raleigh area a few years, so that's possible.
This is the iNaturalist observation. I'm curious because iNat includes a "wild" designation and I'm not sure how this bird should fall into that category.
