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Welcome to Utah Birds!
Hotline
Sightings & Reports
(State and
Local hotlines, Hotline Reports,
Sightings by County, National Hotlines)
New to the Photo Gallery
State
Calendar of Activities
Group
Activities & Events
Hotline Highlights
Hotlines:
Ever wondered how to put links to
photos,
videos,
directions to locations, etc., in your messages to the
Birdnet or BirdTalk?
Well, a new "Email Tips" page has
been added to the Utah Birds website that will answer some of those
questions. If you have other tips that may be helpful, just send
them in to the webmaster and
we can add them to the page.
UOS Book Reviews:
Several new book reviews have been posted on the
Utah Ornithological Society website. Several
of these books are written by local birders and ornithologists familiar to
the Utah birding community, these are:
Peregrine Quest by
Clayton White, Backyard
Birds of Utah by Bill Fenimore,
Utah’s Featured Birds
and Viewing Sites by Keith Evens and Wayne Martinson and
Hawks from Every Angle,
by Jerry Liguori.
Bird Songs:
Podcasts for Birders are available for FREE DOWNLOAD
through the
iTunes
website. Kevin Colver's "soundscape" recordings include "Sunrise at
Fish Srings," and "Starvation Creek," in Utah as well as bird
sounds from places in Texas, California and Alaska.
Feature Pages:
Check out the new "Bird
Humor" Section of the "Feature Pages"! Also new in
the "Feature Pages" is a
photo story of a pair of Barn
Swallows somewhere in the Mid-East.
State Checklist:
The Utah Bird Records Committee has published a
new state checklist with 443 species --
up by 17 from the last official
checklist in 2004. According to the new codes, 15 species that have
become more common and 19
species that have become less
common. A new designation of "provisional
species" has been added to indicate those species that have been
accepted as a Utah species without physical evidence such as a photo, an
audio recording or a specimen.
Feature Pages:
Jerry Liguori, an expert in identifying flying
raptors, has sent in an article with excellent photos about the difficult
task of "Ageing Golden
Eagles in Flight" This specifically covers 1 to 3 year-old Golden
Eagles with very similar plumages having white in the wings or tail.
Hotline Photos:
Not since
28 May 1977 has a
Yellow-billed Loon in breeding plumage been documented in Utah...
there have been only nine documented sighting in
Utah...ever!...until now.
Marci Welch sent in some
excellent photos of a Yellow-billed Loon at Jordanelle Reservoir which
sent birders dashing to the remote east shore of the reservoir to try to
find the bird before it continued its flight to the northern coast of
North America. Many birders got to see this rarity and for almost
all, it was a lifer! (Here's
a map of the previous sightings in Utah).
Places to Bird:
Merrill Webb wrote a series of article for the
Utah County Birders newsletter
entitled "Top 20 places in Utah to go birding before I die."
These articles have been incorporated into the "Places
to Bird" pages of the website. Here's
Merrill's top 20 birding locations in
Utah.
Places to Bird:
Sanpete County has gained two more birding places
with photos for its county pages. Eric Huish has submitted a
write-up and photos for
Skyview Drive - North and
Skyview drive - South.
He also recently sent in information and pictures of
Burriston Ponds in Juab
County which has been a popular birding place for years, but has not had a
write-up until now.
Checklists:
A new
checklist for San Juan County (in PDF format) is now available on the
website. The new checklist was created using the information from an
article by Lu Giddings in the UOS journal
which came out last month.
San Juan
County rivals Washington County for the greatest number of species
documented within a county borders.
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