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rare birds do show up



Dear Carolinabirders,

I lived for 2 and a half years in NC, that is why I am still on this 
listserv, simply I am interested in the birding of that region where 
I saw so many unique birds.

The Snowy Owl sighting seems to be right, strange bird, in a strange 
place, behaving quite funny.

Here in mid-January a young teenager birder saw a strange dark  duck on the 
Danube near Budapest, funny, looking apparently ill, looking like 
nothing familiar. He reported it to the Nomenclator Committee right 
away (10 million hungarians have 5 million mobile phones), but nobody was interested. He did not give up, returned the 
next day and found the body of the dead bird.

This bird now is in the National Museum as the first specimen of 
Steller's Eider from Hungary, also the most inland data of this 
species in Europe. (adult female, got one single birdshot in her neck)

I am happy to report, that on Sunday I had a life bird in HUNGARY: a 
group of 5 Red-breasted Geese (Branta ruficollis) among 6000 Greater White-fronted Geese. 
What a nice bird!

So, anything is possible!

sorry for out of area posting

Ferenc Domoki
Szeged
HUNGARY