Date: 6/13/26 12:32 pm From: Sandy Cash (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> Subject: Re: Garganey and the Demise of the Listserve
Weirdly enough, there *are* still a couple of key holdouts against the
GroupMe hegemony - the LRGV RBA is still on WhatsApp, and SE AZ (maybe all
of AZ) uses…Discord.
-Sandy
Sandy Cash
Carrboro, NC, USA
On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM "Len (null)" <carolinabirds...> wrote:
> I remember driving up from Greenville, SC. There were about a dozen other
> birders there. We saw the mango immediately. It was Nov 24, 2000.
>
> Len Kopka
>
> On Jun 13, 2026, at 6:33 AM, Dennis Forsythe <carolinabirds...>
> wrote:
>
>
> All
>
> Ed Blitch and I drove up from Charleston to see the Mango. We saw it as
> soon as we arrived and after more viewing we drove home arriving at 6PM. A
> great bird and a spectacular day with my late friend Ed. Blitch 3 .
>
> Dennis
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 11:55 PM Steve Shultz <carolinabirds...>
> wrote:
>
>> The mango was amazing. After this record there was a pattern of vagrancy
>> even up to the Midwest. It has not been repeated however. This was probably
>> the most incredible bird ever seen in NC. Honored
>> to have seen it.
>>
>> Steve Shultz
>>
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2026, at 8:42 PM, Rob G <carolinabirds...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> re: the Green-breasted Mango: Yeah, that was a spectacular find, but (and
>> merely my speculation) I never believed it got here under its own power --
>> I once worked for a company that dealt with large cargo trucks hauling
>> tropical plants from south to north -- birds flew into and out of those
>> trucks pretty regularly... I imagine the Mango entered such a hauler way
>> south somewhere (and got trapped) and when the truck arrived in say
>> Charlotte(?), and the back gate opened, out it flew! FWIW.
>>
>> -- Rob Gluck.... Carrboro, NC.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, June 12, 2026 at 08:22:51 PM EDT, Sandy Cash (via
>> carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I’m late to this discussion, but the Green-breasted Mango we had over 25
>> years ago in Concord is my favorite nationally rare species we’ve had in
>> NC. At least one of the major field guides makes a passing reference to
>> that specific bird.
>>
>> -Sandy
>>
>> Sandy Cash
>> Carrboro, NC, USA
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 1:58 PM Steve Shultz <carolinabirds...>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The booby was an amazing inland bird!
>>
>> From an ABA perspective, they are fairly easy since they breed in Hawaii.
>> I choose not to count Hawaii birds on my ABA list, but others do, and the
>> rules allow. Otherwise, there have been about a hundred accepted
>> continental records for that species.
>>
>> The bluetail is an amazing record too! … but my post was about nationally
>> rare birds found in NC 😉
>>
>> Steve Shultz
>>
>>
>> > On Jun 10, 2026, at 1:06 PM, Robert Lewis <rfermat...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Steve Shultz wrote:
>> >
>> >> But back to the Garganey. There is one being seen at Pea Island in
>> Dare County (found by Audrey Whitlock.) It’s an amazing find. This is
>> perhaps the rarest chasable bird to grace North Carolina in a decade. Most
>> “rare birds” aren’t. They are locally rare, slightly late, slightly early,
>> or uncommon. This duck is rare. It is continentally rare. Virtually no one
>> in NC has seen one in NC, and few have seen one in the United States,
>> especially an alternate plumaged drake. It’s a big deal*.
>> >
>> > No doubt it's a great record. But I don't think it is quite as rare as
>> Steve suggests. There are about 100 records in North America outside of
>> Alaska, and 80 in Alaska. Furthermore, a pattern is beginning to appear of
>> the bird appearing in the East in late May - early June. Now, Red-flanked
>> Bluetail -- that's RARE!
>> >
>> > Personally, I still think the Red-footed Booby of a few years ago in
>> Wake County is truly amazing. There are only two inland records in North
>> America. (The other was in Alabama.) And yes, it was chaseable. I chased
>> it! So did dozens of others.
>> >
>> > Bob Lewis
>> > Durham NC
>>
>>
>
> --
> Dennis M Forsythe PhD
> Emeritus Professor of Biology
> The Citadel
> Charleston, SC
> 843-708-1605 cell
>
