Date: 8/13/25 8:57 am
From: Harry LeGrand (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...>
Subject: Re: article about Yellow-rumped x Black-throated Blue hybrid at Hilton Head, SC
Will,

Thanks for bringing up this scientifically interesting bird/record. I'm
currently working (i.e., struggling) on the Summer Briefs for *The Chat,*
but I can always include out-of-season records like this, so that it will
get into printed literature. It has now been added to my draft, which
right now is just into the waterfowl.

I do see the observer, the "species", and the location, but the date right
now for me is just "winter 2024-25". I can cite a color photo in The
Island Packet, which appears to be the Hilton Head Island
newsletter/newspaper. However, in a few days I suspect that most of us
will be unable to access this report.

If anyone reading this can provide a particular DAY, that would be
excellent. And, also, any other news source/outlet would be helpful, as
this is too significant to just appear one time only in a town's
newsletter/newspaper, never to be heard from again.

Harry LeGrand
Briefs for the Files editor

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM Will Cook <cwcook...>
wrote:

> This bird was observed last winter, but the article is recent.
>
> https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/environment/article311621106.html
>
> It doesn't appear to have been ebirded as far as I can tell.
>
> --
> Will Cook - Durham, NChttp://www.carolinanature.com/
>
>

 
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