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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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